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LiteStep & SlickRun - GrabWinR Thread last updated on 2007-09-06 16:38:51

Posted by member 380164 on 2007-08-29 08:08:34

I'm using LiteStep as my shell and SlickRun as my launcher. SlickRun has an option called GrabWinR that allows WinKey+R to bring up the launcher. However, when I have that enabled, the LiteStep popup menu comes up too. Does anyone have experience using SlickRun with LiteStep and having WinKey+R bring up SlickRun (without the popup showing)?

Thanks!
Joe

Posted by member 1 on 2007-08-29 11:25:45 link

Edit your personal.rc and have popup not grab the winkey. You may also need to edit your hotkey.rc and remove the link from WinKey+R to !Run.

Posted by member 380164 on 2007-08-29 15:32:21 link

Perhaps I should have added that I would like to still have the popup come up on WinKey. I actually had to add it into hotkey.rc; I use the WinKey to bring up the popup all the time. Is there another option? What should personal.rc look like to allow the popup to grab the winkey? This is what's in my hotkey.rc for popup:

jKeyLwinkey !Popup
jKeyLwinkeyTimeout 500 ;you can play around with this

Posted by member 1 on 2007-08-29 17:43:46 link

If you hold the win key and hit another key it shouldn't open the popup I am pretty sure. I am pretty sure that the code waits for the release, jugg would know more if that is actually the trigger since he wrote jKey. You should in fact get the Windows Run box to appear along with SlickRun based on your config I think. To resolve it you could move your popup to only the right win key and use the left for SlickRun.

Posted by member 31 on 2007-09-06 14:39:52 link

Yah, that is an issue with jKey. Windows passes on a hotkey notification for just the WinKey even if another program registered a hotkey combination using the WinKey. I haven't found a solution yet. Dev's workaround for moving the popup to the right Winkey is what I use...

BTW, if you can bind your WinKey+R with jKey itself to launch SlickRun, then you won't have this problem, since jKey internally cancels subsequent WinKey notifications if it was just used in a registered hotkey combination.

Posted by member 380164 on 2007-09-06 16:38:51 link

Thanks jugg! That is basically what I ended up doing. Since SlickRun itself is a singleton (only launches one instance at a time), I assigned WinKey+R to launch SlickRun. Only caveat is you lose the "Jump to Cursor Location" feature. It's a limitation that I can live with for the time being.