Disable global hotkey Ctrl+Shift+T
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Charles Dye
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Open your .INI file in a text editor, for example:
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notepad "%_ininame"Search for a line beginning with TrayHotKey. If you find one, change the value after the equals sign to a forward slash; if not, add a line TrayHotKey=/ somewhere in the [TakeCommand] section. Then restart TakeCommand.
Charles Dye
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DOH! How did I miss that?!?
Probably because it isn't documented outside of the "What's New" page. But I think only alphanumeric keys are supported; probably any punctuation mark would bugger it up. Er, disable it.
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It would be better to not set any global hotkey at all than to take over Ctrl+Shift+T, especially with no way in the UI to turn it off. This is a really poor default setting. Ctrl+Shift+T is an important key combination in every modern browser. No program should take it over globally.
Imagine a program taking over Ctrl+Z - taking away Ctrl+Shift+T is a lot like that. It's a safety line you grab when you just made a mistake, and that's not something you want to have mysteriously fail.
Sorry I'm cranky! It took me a while just to figure out that it was Take Command causing this. So I do thank you for posting the solution.
Imagine a program taking over Ctrl+Z - taking away Ctrl+Shift+T is a lot like that. It's a safety line you grab when you just made a mistake, and that's not something you want to have mysteriously fail.
Sorry I'm cranky! It took me a while just to figure out that it was Take Command causing this. So I do thank you for posting the solution.
I agree. Unfortunally this comment blog by someone on JPSoft's addressed the problem soon enough, but appears to have been ignored.
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+1 for this being a terrible choice for a default hot key, since every web browser uses it to reopen the last tab. And no documentation, and no UI to control it!
Charles Dye
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You can reassign it or disable it yourself. Edit the .INI file, and find (or create) a line beginning with TrayHotKey=
Set it to any alphanumeric to make the hotkey Control-Alt-whatever. Set it to a slash (or probably most other punctuation -- I haven't tested) to disable it.
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I realize that. I'm just tired of having to deal with it whenever I'm on a new machine/install. Plus, as Rex has repeatedly said, we're not supposed to edit the INI.
At this point I'm back to using %@iniwrite to just fix it since I can do that reasonably universally since I do have a standard TCSTART.BTM that I deploy to my VM test environments.
At this point I'm back to using %@iniwrite to just fix it since I can do that reasonably universally since I do have a standard TCSTART.BTM that I deploy to my VM test environments.
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TCMD hasn't used Ctrl-Shift-T for more than a month.
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What does it use for TrayHotKey? ("What's New" still says "Ctrl-Shift-T".)
When I press Ctrl-Shift-T, I get a new tab ... why? What key combo is supposed to give a new tab?
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Neither Ctrl-Shift-T nor Ctrl-T is mentioned in my INI file ... or in any alias ... or in any global hotkey (my own server). But either of them opens a new tab in TCMD.
Ctrl-Shift-Z works as expected with "Tray=Yes". But with "Tray=No", Ctrl-Shift-Z **hides** TCMD (it disappears without a taskbar icon). Is that WAD?
Ctrl-Shift-Z works as expected with "Tray=Yes". But with "Tray=No", Ctrl-Shift-Z **hides** TCMD (it disappears without a taskbar icon). Is that WAD?
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There's a peculiar interaction with the Win7 tray's hide/show/icon/notifications control. Even after TCMS has been closed, its icon remains in that control (with a defunct caption) and affects the behavior of future TCMDs. That caption is not updated in the control for quite a while. I have not started/closed TCMD several times and an old caption still appears there. Are you destroying the tray icon when TCMD is closed? I don't think it should remain in that control.
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Take Command shortcut keys are stored in the registry, under (I think) HKCU\Software\JP Software\Take Command mm.nn\Settings\NormalLayout\Shortcuts. The key data is stored in a single binary item, not as friendly ASCII key names, and clearly isn't meant to be viewed or edited. But I think you could rename or delete the key while TC isn't running to reset all of your shortcut keys in one swell foop.
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I renamed the key with TCMD not running. When I started TCMD Ctrl-T and Ctrl-Shift-T still caused a new tab to start.
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Interesting ... the registry contains nearly identical trees under "Take Command 15.0" and "Take Command 15.01". When I renamed the "Shortcuts" sub-sub-subkey of "Take Command 15.0" it was re-created. When I renamed the same in "Take Command 15.01" it was not re-created. (Neither changed the behavior of Ctrl-T and Ctrl-Shift-T.) Does TCMD need both trees?