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Changing system function button functions

  • 12-01-2012 10:53pm
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    taylorconor95
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    I want to change the dashboard button (F4) in the top row of my keyboard to execute a shell command I have saved as and executable drive. Does anyone know how to do this through terminal? I'm not looking to download some other program that runs in the manubar, just rewrite what the button executes...

    Any ideas? Im in 10.6.8
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    conor.hogan.2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,246 ✭✭✭conor.hogan.2


    taylorconor95 wrote: »
    I want to change the dashboard button (F4) in the top row of my keyboard to execute a shell command I have saved as and executable drive. Does anyone know how to do this through terminal? I'm not looking to download some other program that runs in the manubar, just rewrite what the button executes...

    Any ideas? Im in 10.6.8

    There probably is a way, but I imagine you scoured google and found none?

    What I just do is have my scripts in various places and when I want to execute them I just cmd-spacebar to bring up Spotlight and search the first few letters and it pops up pretty much straight away and runs.

    For example I have an applescript script to open terminal in the current finder directory and when I search spotlight for "ter" or "fin" it pops straight up.

    This is useful for pretty much anything I use daily as they are all 4 keys away in Spotlight.


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