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10.3: Assign unassignable keys to Exposé
Authored by: twalkabout on Jan 12, '04 05:00:11PM

Awesome hint! This makes exposé so much more useable on a powerbook. Plus I finally have a use for that freakin' enter key! Anybody remember the original Titanium Powerbook, on the right side of the space bar there was the enter key in place of the apple key! At least they got rid of that quickly, as opposed to some other apple design blunders...

I set it up for the enter key as show all and apple-enter as show desktop. This is good for right-handed use. I'll have to figure out another easy reachable combo for show all app windows.

I did have to read through the hint a couple times to figure it out, so I thought I would help try to explain. When you look through that plist, each section starts with a key, I think this is the coding:

Key - Exposé function
32 - Show all windows
33 - Show application windows
34 - Show desktop
35 - Slow motion show application windows
36 - Slow motion show all windows
37 - Slow motion show desktop
38-49: ?? I don't know -- the key codes indicate this is for y, shift-y etc.

For example, here is the show desktop, when changed to apple-enter:

<key>34</key>
<dict>
<key>enabled</key>
<true/>
<key>value</key>
<dict>
<key>parameters</key>
<array>
<integer>-1</integer>
<integer>52</integer>
<integer>131072</integer>
</array>
<key>type</key>
<string>standard</string>
</dict>

Hope this helps. Thanks again reg!



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10.3: Assign unassignable keys to Exposé
Authored by: ptere on Apr 24, '04 07:29:35AM

Please provide an example of how to modify "Enter" key to "Show windows".
Thanks, I'm new and see the value of having this option, and that of "Apple+Enter" for "Show desktop" on my PowerBook.



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