I am still in process of finalizing my hotkeys but I would say at this point there are 90% complete.
Highlighted are my most favourite features that hoekey provides outside of Windows,
- Toggle Transparency
- Toggle keep a windows alway on top
- Centre a Window
Note that Windows 7 has built-in keyboard shortcuts,
- Windows key + Shift + Left Arrow or Right Arrow - Move a window from one monitor to another.
- Windows key + Up - Maximize current window
- Windows key + Down - Restore current window
You can get a complete Windows 7 keyboard shortcut listing from Microsoft.
Tin's hoekey.ini for Windows 7 64-bit
Some remaining items,
- Create new folder
- New in hoekey 1.1.5, be able to pass selected file to a program like notepad.
- Consider changing some keyboard triggers.
I have also found a new bug and let the author know around permissions. One can not run telnet and see certain files when jumping to the command line using Hoekey.
There is a bug when running on Windows 7 in that Windows 7 does not pass the current path properly with %c. I donated and wrote to the author who was nice enough to provide a working fix.
; Simple Example HoeKey config ; ; Key Modifiers: ; ~=windows, _=shift, ^=ctrl, @=alt ; ; More details at http://www.bcheck.net/apps/hoe.htm ; Tin's hoekey.ini for Windows 7 ; Start in system tray Start=TrayIcon|1|Double-click to configure your Windows Key =Rem|-- General -- ~Q=Config ;win+Q: Configure HoeKey ~^O=Run|"D:\Tin\connectivity\2keys mail and ciphershare.tlp" ;win+ctrl+o: Bitvise Tunneling for Outlook and Ciphershare ~O=Run|"C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Microsoft Office\Microsoft Office Outlook 2007.lnk" ;win+o: Outlook ~I=Run|"C:\Users\Server Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Internet Explorer (64-bit).lnk" ;win+i: IE 64-bit ~^I=Run|"C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Mozilla Firefox\Mozilla Firefox.lnk" ;win+ctrl+i: Firefox ~@I=Run|"C:\Users\Server Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Internet Explorer.lnk" ;win+alt+i: IE 32-bit ~_I=Run|"C:\Users\Server Admin\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Google Chrome\Google Chrome.lnk" ;win+shift+i: Chrome ~J=Run|cmd.exe|||D:\ ;win+j: Command shell ~^J=Run|cmd.exe|||%c ;win+ctrl+j: Command shell in current directory =Rem|-- Communication -- ~K=Run|D:\data-vmshared\apps\KiTTY\kitty.exe ;win+k: Kitty Putty ~^K=Run|"C:\Program Files (x86)\ExpanDrive\ExpanDrive.exe" ;win+ctrl+k: ExpandDrive SSH Drive Mapping ; For working directory to work properly you must startup using a shortcut. ~C=Run|"C:\apps\Putty Connection Manager\puttycm.shortcut.lnk" ;win+c: Putty Connection Manager =Rem|-- Utilities -- ~A=Run|"C:\Program Files\Araxis\Araxis Merge\Merge.exe" ;win+a: Araxis Merge ~^A=RUN|"C:\Program Files\Araxis\Araxis Merge\Merge.exe" %c %c ;win+ctrl+a: Araxis Merge Folder Comparison first argument is current folder ; This should be improved to change d:\ to the desktop variable ~N=Run|C:\apps\metapad351\metapad.exe|||d:\ ;win+n: Metapad ~^N=Run|notepad.exe ;win+ctrl+n: Notepad ~Z=Run|D:\data-vmshared\apps\npp.5.7.bin\unicode\notepad++.exe||| ;win+p: Notepad Plus Plus ~^Z=Run|D:\data-vmshared\apps\npp.5.7.bin\unicode\notepad++.exe %s||| ;win+p: Load selected file into Notepad Plus Plus ; Attempt to replace puretext but does not work as I expect and logs me out ;~V=Keys|%p ;win+v current clipboard as plaintext ;~^v=Keys|%P ;win+ctrl+v current clipboard as plaintext, removing returns and newlines ; Edit host file with admin rights ; This requires the elevate scripts ;~^H=Run|C:\apps\elevate.from.command.line\elevate.cmd C:\apps\metapad351\metapad.exe C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts ;win+ctrl+h: edit hosts file using elevate utility ~^H=Run|C:\apps\metapad351\metapad.exe C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts ;win+ctrl+h: edit hosts file =Rem|-- Folders -- ~S=Run|d:\svn ~W=Run|D:\Tin\w =Rem|-- Windows Manipulation -- ~Y=Center||2 ~^left=MoveRel||-10 ;win+ctrl+left: move current window left 10pixels ~^up=MoveRel|||-10 ;win+ctrl+up: move current window up 10pixels ~^right=MoveRel||10 ;win+ctrl+right: move current window right 10pixels ~^down=MoveRel|||10 ;win+ctrl+down: move current window down 10pixels ~end=Hide||1 ;win+end: hide current window to system tray ~^end=Unhide ;win+ctrl+end: show last hidden window from system try ~H=Transparency||30% ;win+h: Make current window =AlwaysOnTop ;transparent and on top ~F9=AlwaysOnTop ;win+f9: Pin current window to always show ; Future Keys to overried ; Back 8 ; PRINt 42 ; A, Z