OK, completely noob question I should be able to figure out but I am stuck.
I have a small program that I want to run in Windows 7 with a keyboard shortcut. Selected Start -> Program In Question -> Right Click -> Send to (Create Shortcut on Desktop).
I want to add a keyboard shortcut to this, so I right click on the desktop shortcut and click properties. Now I only have the following tabs: General, Security, Details, Previous Versions. No option for Shortcut.
So, how do I create a custom keyboard shortcut from this desktop shortuct?
Thanks!
It sounds like you made a folder shortcut, if it is a folder you won't have a shortcut tab, try it again but this time click the program you wanted to make a shortcut and see if it is just a folder that has a different icon. (If it expands in your start menu then it was a folder.)
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I'm trying to create a shortcut (.lnk) file that will launch scrcpy without showing the console window, but I need to be able to pin it to the taskbar and have the window and shortcut merge. Scrcpy is bundled with a vbs script that launches scrcpy through wscript, hiding the console, but when I made a shortcut opening that through wscript that made a duplicate window (icon?). I also found a somewhat promising question here about Pinning advertised shortcuts on the taskbar, which led me to an MS Docs page about AppUserModelIds, the only problem being I don't really understand how they work, or how to make a shortcut with them.
I have a Cocoa application. In the View menu, the system adds an Enter Full Screen menu item. In other applications I see that this menu item has the keyboard shortcut ^⌘F. However in my application this keyboard shortcut is not shown in the menu and unsurprisingly this key combination does not enter full screen.
Interestingly, this keyboard shortcut, although shown in other applications, does not work.
How do I debug and/or fix this?
Any new Xcode application should get the View menu with Enter Full Screen already setup.
You can add the Key command in the Attributes Inspector.
If the key command doesn't work in ANY application, then that's likely a non-programming problem: most likely a conflict with a duplicate key command that's been configured.
Check System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts.
I was wondering if there was a way to set a keyboard shortcut to send terminal to the back, behind other windows and then back to the front. Cmd-tab is the only way I can think of, but not a good option as I often have many windows of the same application.
You can do it via Hotkey option.
Goto Preferences -> Keys tab -> Hotkey section -> Set a shortcut key combination.
By this, when you are in the other application, the same shortcut in application level will not work.
For instance, if you set CMD+SHIFT+J as the hotkey, now if you switch to chrome, then CMD+SHIFT+J will not open downloads page in Chrome. It switches back to the iTerm window.
Is there any way to place the taksbar icons of all the open apps in Windows 8.1 next to each other automatically?
Say I open an app whose icon is on the far left, next to the start button, and I want said icon to appear to move to the far right of my string of icons, next to all my other open programs, automatically.
Is there any way to do that?
Do you mean, for applications that you have already pinned to the taskbar, you want them to move over to the end of the line of open programs? I don't think it is possible to set this option automatically. However, you can manually move them to where-ever and they will remain pinned. For other taskbar settings, just search Taskbar and the settings box will come up.
On a Mac, I'd like to have a keyboard shortcut to open Google Chrome. I know how to set a keyboard shortcut in the system preferences, however I'm unsure how to script it and hook it up.
Is this possible through AppleScript?
If you don't want to use any third party applications you need to create a service and assign it a shortcut.
Open Automator and select Service. You want it to look like the following :
Save it to its default location. ie ~/Library/Services
Open System Preferences --> Keyboard --> Keyboard Shortcuts. Enable the service and assign it a shortcut.
Shortcuts for Automator services might not always work until the service has been selected once from the menu bar. And they won't be available in applications that don't have a Services menu. There's usually also a noticable delay before they are run.
Using a third party application like Alfred or Apptivate would probably be a better idea.
Another option would be assign shortcuts to AppleScripts like this:
tell application "iTunes"
reopen
activate
end tell
Not with AppleScript alone -- there's no way to bind a keyboard shortcut to execute an arbitrary command.
Instead of writing something yourself, you may want to take a look at some existing launcher applications, like Butler, Spark, or Quicksilver.
Here is a trick.
Use Ctrl + ↑ to create a new desktop, say desktop2, and drag chrome application into that new desktop.
Open the keyboard preference pane, switch to the shortcut tab, and select mission control to assign a key to that desktop2. Now you can switch to chrome use that key.