The other day I was talking with some of my fellow art&technicians. We got on the subject of keyboard shortcuts. Each one of us offered up keyboard shortcuts that didn’t exist—but should exist.
The one that has always bothered me is that I cannot right click with my keyboard. I can double click with command-O but I cannot right click. There are some file extensions that I open with many different programs and with no real default application, consistently needing to used the “Open With” function. A good example of this are image files—half the time I am just looking at them and half the time I am editing them.
We tried defining our own keyboard shortcut for it but we couldn’t get it to work. I’ve never really been a fan of customized shortcuts because I don’t just care about MY computer, it pisses me off that I can’t right click on YOUR computer too.
2 Comments
music_man
February 6th 2009 @ 11:09 PM #
System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard Shortcuts > [+] Button > Application, “Finder” ; Menu Title, “Other…” (Case sensitive, use keyboard command OPTION-SEMICOLON to create proper ellipsis – DO NOT use 3 periods), Keyboard Shortcut, “[whatever your heart desires]” (might I suggest control-option-command-o?)
If you’re in OS 10.4, logout, log back in. If OS 10.5, no action required.
Now, find a file, highlight it, and perform your new keyboard shortcut.
dan
February 7th 2009 @ 11:53 AM #
Thanks MM! I’d prefer a built in shortcut but I suppose a custom one will have to do for now. It seems I’m not the only one, 207,000 search results on the topic.
I tried your advice. (control-option-command-o) yielded no results so I tried a few other variations on that—they all opened up the file directly like the normal (command-o) does.
I’m running OS 10.4, I tried logging out, also tried a restart.
Found a good link along the way:
http://www.danrodney.com/mac/index.html