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Custom Hot KeysSeptember 26, 2006 - 11:04am
sudont asks: QuestionI recently installed iTunes 7. I haven’t experienced any of the problems others seem to have, but there is a new annoyance for me. The keyboard shortcut for the equalizer is gone! It doesn’t seem to be used for anything else, so it’s a mystery to me why it’s gone. AnswerIn System Preferences’ Keyboard & Mouse pane, there’s a tab for Keyboard Shortcuts. This is easily one of the more under-used features of OS X and it allows you to assign a hot key to virtually any menu item fairly easily. Simply add a new item, selecting iTunes from the application list, and fill out the exact name of the menu item you want to invoke – in this case, “Show Equalizer” and assign it the hot key you wish. About JC |
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The Equalizer Menu Item changes. You have to make two keyboard shortcut entries. One for „Show Equalizer“ and one for „Hide Equalizer“.
I actually tested this before posting and found that, at least as of Tiger 10.4.7, the second entry is not needed; the System is capable of figuring out that these items are one and the same.
To be fair, these are “Keyboard Shortcuts” rather than hot keys. Hot keys do the same thing in all programs (like Dashboard’s activation key) whereas Keyboard Shortcuts are specific to an application.
I would really like to be able to use the same shortcut to update all feeds in NetNewsWire that I use in Mail.app to check mail for all accounts. But Apple-Shift-N is locked to “Show Main Window” in NetNewsWire, so it doesnt matter if I add that to my shortcuts.
Any tip on how to make it work when a conflict like this is in my way?
/Sven
I just overrode an existing shortcut; it works fine.
Just ensure that you switch tabs in the prefpane to something like Mouse and then come back before relaunching the program. It doesn’t save its changes live, it appears.
Thanks Adam for pointing me in the right direction.
I first had to add a new shortcut for the function that occupied the shortcut I wanted.
After that the first shortcut worked out as I wanted.
/S
Thanks! I hadn’t realized you could do that (add shortcuts to menu items).
Is there a way to assign a hotkey to the Apple menu?