Keyboard Shortcut to Favorite Directory (Folder)
Keyboard Shortcut to Favorite Directory (Folder)
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I'm trying to find an easy way to set up keyboard shortcuts to a few directories (some are already in 'favorites' and some are not.)
In this thread from 2019 Don mentions the menu User > Manage Commands. I see no 'user' item in the menu bar. Am I looking in the correct place? Has this been removed? viewtopic.php?p=169891#p169891
Thanks.
I'm trying to find an easy way to set up keyboard shortcuts to a few directories (some are already in 'favorites' and some are not.)
In this thread from 2019 Don mentions the menu User > Manage Commands. I see no 'user' item in the menu bar. Am I looking in the correct place? Has this been removed? viewtopic.php?p=169891#p169891
Thanks.
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Turned off on Configuration | Other | Features?
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In the process of setting up some keyboard shortcuts, I have created ALT-O (the letter O, not zero) to open the directory in which I have my MS Office files. It works as expected, but it also opens up the favorite folders dropdown from the menu bar. I don't see ALT-O being assigned to anything else. And I don't see that opening the favorites folder from the menu bar can be assigned to a hotkey.
I want ALT-O to open the configured folder in a new tab, which it currently does, but without opening up the dropdown for favorites. Any idea why this is happening?
Thanks.
EDIT: I'm now finding that ALT-A is doing the same thing but with a new designated folder. ALT-M and ALT-C are opening up the assigned folder without bringing up the favorites dropdown.
I want ALT-O to open the configured folder in a new tab, which it currently does, but without opening up the dropdown for favorites. Any idea why this is happening?
Thanks.
EDIT: I'm now finding that ALT-A is doing the same thing but with a new designated folder. ALT-M and ALT-C are opening up the assigned folder without bringing up the favorites dropdown.
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v19.10.0102 - 2018-08-05 14:28
+ Added tweak to remove all accelerator keys from the main window.
StripAccelerators=1
Using this tweak allows you, for example, to define Alt+D as keyboard
shortcut for "Focus Address Bar" without conflicting with the "Find
Hidden" checkbox (accelerator key = Alt+D) on the Find File tab.
Note that this still won't work e.g. in the German version where the word
for "File" is "Datei" so it starts with a D. In absence of accelerator
keys Windows will use the first letters of the main menu captions to
accelerate access to them. So, no Alt+D for Germans. :) (There is a
political pun in this I won't explain here.)
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Is the StripAccelerators tweak simply an on/off parameter (0 or 1)?
Changing it from 0 to 1 stopped the favorites menu from dropping down, but now as I'm adding more hotkeys I'm finding that they're causing other menubar items to drop down. These are causing the menubar to dropdown:
ALT-E (Edit)
ALT-V (View)
ALT-G (Go)
ALT-U (User)
ALT-S (Scripting)
ALT-P (Panes)
ALT-W (Window)
ALT-H (Help)
These opened the dropdown before changing the tweak but now do not:
ALT-F (File or Folder)
ALT-T (Tags or Tabsets or Tools)
Probably because there is more than one menubar item with the same first letter.
Before applying the tweak, ALT-A and ALT-O were opening up a dropdown but now they're not.
How can I disable all of the menubar dropdowns from appearing when using a keyboard hotkey ALT-the first letter of the menubar item?
Thanks.
Changing it from 0 to 1 stopped the favorites menu from dropping down, but now as I'm adding more hotkeys I'm finding that they're causing other menubar items to drop down. These are causing the menubar to dropdown:
ALT-E (Edit)
ALT-V (View)
ALT-G (Go)
ALT-U (User)
ALT-S (Scripting)
ALT-P (Panes)
ALT-W (Window)
ALT-H (Help)
These opened the dropdown before changing the tweak but now do not:
ALT-F (File or Folder)
ALT-T (Tags or Tabsets or Tools)
Probably because there is more than one menubar item with the same first letter.
Before applying the tweak, ALT-A and ALT-O were opening up a dropdown but now they're not.
How can I disable all of the menubar dropdowns from appearing when using a keyboard hotkey ALT-the first letter of the menubar item?
Thanks.
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In absence of accelerator keys Windows will use the first letters of the main menu captions to accelerate access to them.
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Thanks for pounding that piece into my head. I guess I should start reading -all- the words.admin wrote: ↑05 Dec 2022 14:19Code: Select all
In absence of accelerator keys Windows will use the first letters of the main menu captions to accelerate access to them.
I notice that the Win key isn't available for hotkeys. Is there a reason for that?There might be a way to stop that, but it's not implemented ATM.