osx - Create keyboard shortcut for context menu item
2014-07
Philip007
Evernote Mac has a feature called "Copy Classic Note Link" that I constantly use, it only appears in context menu when you right click a note like this:
Although it has a shortcut Option-C, but that only take effect AFTER the context menu is shown, which means I still need an extra right click to use the feature.
I have tried to create a custom evernote shortcut in System Preference > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts but in vail. I suppose that approach only works for menu items, not context menu items.
Any thoughts?
Philip
I go into System Preferences, open the Keyboard & Mouse pane, and create keyboard shortcuts for various Firefox menu items in the application keyboard shortcuts section. When I load Firefox, the menu items now appear with the appropriate shortcut listed, but pressing the key combination merely flashes the menu header (e.g. for “Add-ons” it only flashes Tools) without performing the appropriate behavior. I’ve checked the key combinations to make sure they’re unique, checked in other applications and the shortcuts work, and clicked the Firefox menu items to see that they work. There’s just something about Firefox being unwilling to open the menu item when the instruction comes from the keyboard. Any thoughts? (I’m running Firefox 3.5.2 on Mac OS X 10.5.8)
Doug Harris
This is a known issue in Firefox for Mac. You should read this bug report because the author embellished the impact of the issue with humor and Lord of the Rings references. Actual discussion of the core issues and potential fix are in a different bug report.