Mac: Dock
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- orangeglue
Does anyone know the shorcut key to bring up the dock and scroll through the un-opened applications?
(If there even is such a thing)
- Soler0
hold apple, press tab, arrows left/right
- orangeglue0
for un-oppened applications
- Soler0
sounds like a good widget.
- aka0
Or instead of using arrow keys, press Tab again to select application
- ribit0
If you have the Applications folder in your Dock, then right-clicking (or click-hold) will do close to what you want... popping up menu of contents of the Applications folder
or use an 'Open With' contextual menu?
Have you tried Fruit Menu from Unsanity?
- orangeglue0
I want to access the applications on the dock without the help of the mouse. I could easily do this. Command+tab, Select Finder, use arrow keys to select the main drive, Command+O, select the Applications folder with arrow keys, Command+O, Select Application with arrow keys, Command+O...
:P
poo that.I guess its not something Apple did. It should be an app itself. To open the un-oppened applications from the dock using a shortcut key.
- ribit0
You don't like the mouse?
Why dont you just launch EVERYTHING and leave them running? And dont restart each day either, just sleep...
- orangeglue0
not enough ram for all of it hah. i like the mouse, just sometimes its nice when your not designing or anything to just open programs like FF and aim and what not and just navigate around with the keyboard. also it forces you to learn shortcuts.
i wonder if you can use the pen tool in AI using only the keyboard. how in insane that would be.
- ribit0
Just noticed... you can navigate the Dock using keys.. Go look in System Preferences Mouse and Keyboard... There is a key shortcut to 'Move focus to the Dock'..then you use arrow keys, and hit return to launch. You can set your own keys for all of these too.
Plus there are a lot of add-ons that will do this or similar stuff... http://www.versiontracker.com/ph…
btw RAM shouldnt be a problem... inactive apps dont use much...
- orangeglue0
duh, i forgot about the sys. pref.
ooo! thanks for the link!
i didn't know about the ram thing. i fugured having a mess of applications would cause problemas.
thanks for all the info
- digilee0
control F3 then left/ right arrows
- orangeglue0
i have to try that when i get home