[reemas]

i would like to make a shortcut, so that with a press of a button or two Safari could launch. i tried this in sys pref > keyboard shortcuts but i couldnt figure it out!

also what are the f13 - f16 keys for??

please help - thanks!

[Chuckit]

You seem to be misunderstanding what the Keyboard Shortcuts pane does. You can't assign arbitrary actions to shortcuts. It lets you assign shortcuts to menu items. You want something like QuicKeys. The only freeware solution I've found is Sputnik, if you're penny-pinchish. I haven't tried either, but I think that's the sort of program you're looking for.

And the F13-F16 keys are not "for" anything in particular. They're just function keys.

[reemas]

thanks for the reply. if you dont mind, could you give me an example of what you mean but assign shortcuts to menu items?

[Chuckit]

For example, in the Window menu of every application, there is an item called "Bring All to Front". This item normally doesn't have a keyboard shortcut, meaning you have to go into the menu and click on the item if you want to bring all of an application's windows to front. So I assigned it the shortcut apple-control-A, and now I can just hit that combination and it'll do "Bring All to Front" in any application I'm in.

[reemas]

thanks for the help chuckit!

[reemas]

is there a keyboard shortcut for opening system preferences?

i made a shortcut for finder "secure empty trash" successfully, but the one for system preferences just wont work!

any one have luck with this or advice?

thanks

[MartiNZ]

Possibly apple and app menus can't be shortcutted?

I've found the keyboard shortcut pref pane to be a bit dodgy - most of the time it won't list app-specific shortcuts I have created, and sometimes it even forgets them in practice as well. Hopefully this will work better with tiger .