No Command Box shortcut on Mac?

Reuben Helmuth
Reuben Helmuth MVP Posts: 2,485
edited November 2024 in English Forum

I've not found a shortcut key to the command box on Mac (Alt+D does not work). This is no problem as long as I don't use floating windows because I have Better Touch Tool and assigned my own shortcut key (to move my cursor to the right location and triple click). This initial solution, however, doesn't work if I'm in a floating window because the cursor moves relative to the active window. 

I then wrote a shortcut to trigger the menu item: Window>Logos Bible Software - layout name. I knew this name would keep changing as I switched layouts so I triggered the position in the menu. I was the fourth item on the Window menu so my target looked like this "Window;(4)". I was dismayed to discover, however, that this position was not static either. If my floating window happened to be named something that came before Logos (alphabetically), then the Logos item (which is the main window) would move down. 

I haven't been able to find a way to consistently hit this Moving AND Name-Changing target! Crying

Any help would be really appreciated!

The solution that I'd prefer is to make the Position of the menu to go to the main window Static, as this would allow us Mac users to use BTT and easily create our own custom keyboard shortcut to the Command Box.

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  • Rosie Perera
    Rosie Perera Member Posts: 26,194 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Alt+D is the Windows shortcut key to put the focus in the command box.

    For Mac, try Option-Command-L for that.

    See https://wiki.logos.com/Logos_Keyboard_Shortcuts_For_Mac for this and other keyboard shortcuts.

  • Reuben Helmuth
    Reuben Helmuth MVP Posts: 2,485
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/717980#Comment_717980

    Thanks Rosie,

    This works while the focus is somewhere on the main window, but doesn't seem to work when the focus is on a floating window. I consider this a bug, but would others? I REALLY want to be able to fly to the command bar no matter where I'm at.

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  • Rosie Perera
    Rosie Perera Member Posts: 26,194 ✭✭✭✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/718116#Comment_718116

    Well, at least it's consistent behavior between Mac and Windows, as Alt+D also does not move the focus to the command bar if it's in a floating window. It might be by design rather than a bug, but it's worth requesting that this behavior be changed.

    I personally only ever use floating windows in the maximized state, in which case it makes perfect sense to me to Alt+Tab back to the main window (so that I can see the command bar) before doing Alt+D to jump to the command bar. But I could see why others might use a different workflow and prefer the keyboard shortcut to go directly to the command bar no matter where the focus currently is.

  • Reuben Helmuth
    Reuben Helmuth MVP Posts: 2,485
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/718138#Comment_718138

    Rosie Perera said:

    I personally only ever use floating windows in the maximized state,

    This is largely the way I use them as well, but I don't want to execute multiple keystrokes (or swipe back to main window first). I know where the command bar is and can see it "in my mind's eye." I want to hit one keystroke that takes me TO the command bar and let's me start typing immediately. Make sense?

    Perhaps I'll request this change in a new thread.

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