Binding the SlickRun HotKey to Windows-R (and my silent quest for a 1970's style green screen console)
Everyone knows that I loves me some SlickRun. I'm waiting for QuickSilver for Windows (although some feel that's already arrived as AppRocket - I'm not so sure).
I bind SlickRun (with large fonts) to my Windows-R key, but apparently it's not very obvious how to do this. ;)
Here's how: Edit your slickrun.ini in Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\SlickRun\SlickRun.ini and add/change "GrabWinR=1" in the [General] section as seen at right.
I find the whole "Kermit Green on Black" large font color scheme very comforting.
Aside: Does an app like the Mac's GLTerminal (originally written by James A. McCombe and some how leaked/escaped) exist for Windows? Does Chris Sells want to write this in Avalon? This would be a rocking sweet Avalon application that I'd happily download the WinFX library for. It could sweep the net. ;)
Maybe casey will take up the challenge, or perhaps I'll have to learn how to do it myself. Another idea would be to modify the console application from SourceForge.
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Just go to Start > Run: cmd
Click the top-left icon, and choose Properties.
As for the console, I'm a g-o-b fan as well. I've been using Console (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/console/Console2_demo_015.zip?download) for a while now and thought I'd pass it along. It allows for tabbed consoles, customized fonts (not just 2!)/colors, transparency, z-order & docking, and even let's you select the hotkeys for copy/paste. All in all, quite an upgrade from the standard.
Approcket, imho, is not there yet. Too much memory use, too many drop-down options at times (I like Slickrun PRECISELY because it eliminates ambiguities).
If Approcket has Slickrun interface capabilities and it has Windows Desktop Search functionality, then I'll bite.
But then again, Slickrun + Windows Desktop Search totally rocks. Thanks so much Scott for the tools page. I felt such a noob reflecting on how I USED to get things done.
My only complaint to date is that Slickrun doesn't recall Firefox web history.
It wasn't clear from my post but I did eventually work out the whole Win+R key thing by the time I posted (although I think I had to shut SlickRun down to have the .ini file appear initially). The "How?" had to do with how SlickRun was able to bind to the Win+R key when all my searching seemed to indicate that this was not possible.
Thanks
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