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I know that if you want to check your depth on a PC, you press F3, but on my Mac, pressing F3 brings up Mission Control and/or the Dashboard.

Is there a way to check depth in OS X without manually counting blocks?

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see if you can turn/rebind that shortcut on your mac (add a meta key to it) – ratchet freak Apr 15 '12 at 18:03
thanks so much now i can get mining :) – PsYchO_BuLL3TZ Apr 15 '12 at 23:57

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The debug screen is triggered when the F3 key is pressed (Fn+F3 on Macs and some laptops).

—Debug screen, Minecraft Wiki

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You need press the fn key and F3 simultaneously

If you press shift Fn and F3 it won't show the graph and pie chart.

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If you prefer to not always have to press fn when you press F3 then you can reverse the setting so that you press fn with a function key to perform the standard OS X task (i.e. Mission Control would be fn+F3).

System Preferences option

System Preferences > Keyboard > Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys.

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You need to press fn + F3.

I have the same set up and got it to work today.

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You don't need the control key: just fn and F3. – user3389 Jun 17 '12 at 0:28

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