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Disable Command-Q for quitting applications
Authored by: GaelicWizard on May 08, '03 12:53:57PM
Here's whay mine says:
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSUserKeyEquivalents '{"Quit Safari" = "@Q"; "Preferences..." = "@;";}'
I don't need the extra option to quit Mail.app, but i have been quite frustrated by the different key-combos for the preferences window. W/ this, it is now a universal for ALL apps that have a "Preferences..." option under the {insertAppNameHere} menu. Wonderful! I'm about to submit this as a real hint, wish me luck! :-D

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Disable Command-Q for quitting applications
Authored by: toothfish on May 09, '03 11:13:34PM
while i appreciate this, it'd be much more useful to enbale command-H to hide applications in applications that don't support it (ahem... indesign). is there any way to do this?

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Disable Command-Q for quitting applications
Authored by: zpjet on Jan 30, '05 03:10:20AM

i guess you can just go to edit > keyboard shortcuts and remove or change the command's (view > hide frame edges) shortcut. in photoshop, too. but actually, i got so much used to those shortcuts (hiding selection in photoshop already twelve years) that i would hide it using menu or alt-click finder instead...



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Disable Command-Q for quitting applications
Authored by: zpjet on Jan 30, '05 03:31:08AM

i guess you can just go to edit > keyboard shortcuts and remove or change the command's (view > hide frame edges) shortcut. in photoshop, too. but actually, i got so much used to those shortcuts (hiding selection in photoshop already twelve years) that i would hide it using menu or alt-click finder or another app instead...



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Disable Command-Q for quitting applications
Authored by: greg418 on Feb 11, '04 05:55:10AM
I would instead set the shortcut for "Preferences" to the new 'Apple-way' cmd-, as cmd-; is used in Cocoa apps to invoke the spell checker (the one that sits in the Edit menu...).

just in case though, I would set it app-by-app to avoid the possibility of "overriding" a new application's default cmd-, action, which could be unrelated to opening the prefs window...

best

greg

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