What Is This? Is there an application on your Mac whose menu items are lacking keyboard shortcuts? For instance, would it not be easier to add a shortcut to mail for the Save Attachments item, or to iTunes to sync your iOS device, or to Safari to quickly tweet a page?
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Well, you can do all this, and you need nothing more than a few minutes and System Preferences. How Do I Do It?. Open the application to which you want to add a shortcut. Go to the menu item to which the shortcut will be mapped and note how it is spelled, right down to the punctuation and capitalization. OS10 will match the entry you make in System Preferences with this menu item, so the two must match character for character.
Add a full-screen space: If an app supports full-screen view, you can create a full-screen space for that app by dragging its window to an empty area of the Spaces bar. The new space shows the name of that app. Click the space to see the app in full screen. Unlike with Windows, clicking on the red circle at the top left of the window on Macs only closes the window itself, not the program. To fully exit an application, follow these steps: 1.
Try going to the item and pressing vo-shift-c to copy it to the clipboard for pasting later. Vo may insert an extra space somewhere, but you will get the item's exact spelling and capitalization. Now that you have the item, open System Preferences and activate the keyboard button. Select the 'keyboard shortcuts' tab, then select 'application shortcuts' from the first table in the window. Navigate to and activate the 'add application shortcut' button. You are in a new dialog. Use the popup menu to select the application to which the shortcut should apply, or select 'all applications' if the shortcut is for an item that all apps have in common.
Move to the 'menu title' edit field. This is where you will type and/or paste the name of the option to which to map the shortcut. Again, this entry must precisely match the entry in the app's menus or the shortcut will not work. Now move to the 'keyboard shortcut' edit field and press the key sequence to act as the shortcut. This (I assume) must include one keyboard character (letters, numbers, punctuation, arrows, and so on) and one or more modifiers (control, option, command, or shift). The shortcut must not conflict with any system-wide or application-specific shortcuts already in place. If it does, you will not get a warning, the shortcut will simply fail to activate your chosen menu item.
Activate the done button and go try your shortcut. As long as your key sequence does not conflict with any already present, and the text you entered in the 'menu title' field exactly matches the item to be activated, the shortcut should work perfectly. Hi, Thank you like others above said this is a very helpful post. I am wondering what is the difference between creating shortcuts in keyboard vs Commands in VO? I am still trying to figure out VO as there are so many levels to it. I was looking at the Commander in VO Menu where it gives the option to create shortcut. I noticed that depending on which shortcut modifier key is chossen the options are different.
I also can not seem to figure out how to get the commander keys to work. I have some issues with my hands that make it hard for me to press multiple keys at certain times. Is thorny way that the computer can be run without having to always hold down the VO cried? I know sometimes that can conflict with normal non VO commands. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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Windows On Windows 7 and earlier versions of Windows, the Start menu contained a “Startup” folder to make this easy. On these versions of Windows, you can simply open your Start menu, locate a shortcut to an application you want to start automatically, right-click it, and select Copy. Next, locate the Startup folder under All Apps in the Start menu, right-click it, and select Paste to paste a copy of that shortcut. RELATED: This folder is no longer as easily accessible on Windows 8, 8.1, and 10, but it’s still accessible.
To access it, press Windows Key + R, type “shell:startup” into the Run dialog, and press Enter. Yes, you’ll need to use the folder — you can’t simply add shortcuts from. Shortcuts you add to the “shell:startup” folder will only launch when you log in with your user account. If you’d like a shortcut to launch itself whenever any user logs in, type “shell:common startup” into the Run dialog instead. Paste shortcuts into this folder and Windows will automatically load them when you sign into your computer. On Windows 10, you can just drag-and-drop shortcuts from the “All Apps” list in the Start menu directly into this folder. Mac OS X RELATED: On Mac OS X, the same also allows you to add your own custom ones.
Open the System Preferences window by clicking the Apple menu and selecting System Preferences, click the “Users & Groups” icon, and click “Login Items.”. Click the “+” button at the bottom of this list to add applications, or drag-and-drop them into the list of applications. They’ll load automatically when you sign into your computer. Linux RELATED: Different Linux desktops have different ways of doing this. For example, on Ubuntu’s Unity desktop, open the Dash and type the word “start.” Click the “” shortcut to see a list of startup applications. Click the “Add” button in this list to add your own applications. Type a name and provide the command to launch the application. You can also just use this tool to run a command at login.
The GNOME desktop seems to have removed the old gnome-session-properties tool, but this option is still available in, which is even installed by default on some Linux distributions. Examine your Linux desktop’s settings windows to find the appropriate tool. You can also manage this from the hidden /.config/autostart/ directory, which all desktops should read.
The period in front of.config indicates that it’s a hidden directory, while the indicates that it’s in your home directory — so, at /home/username/.config/autostart/. To open it, launch your desktop’s file manager, plug /.config into its address bar, and press Enter.
Double-click the “autostart” folder or create it if it doesn’t yet exist. Add.desktop files to here to have programs start automatically at startup. These.desktop files are application shortcuts — you can often create them by dragging-and-dropping an application onto your desktop or even just into the /.config/autostart/ window. If you’re not using a desktop environment but just want to automatically run a command — or several commands — each time you log in, add the commands to your.bashprofile file located at /.bashprofile, which equates to /home/username/.bashprofile. There are other ways to make programs launch at startup, of course. For example, you could add registry entries to do this on Windows.
But these are the easiest ways to do this. Image Credit.