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Title: Keyhelper Help
Post by: icruise on August 23, 2005, 01:25:36 pm: I've been playing around with Keyhelper a bit and it's quite useful. But I can't seem to get the "launcher" feature to work. As I understand it, using the default keyhelper.xml and keyhelper.conf files, I should be able to launch programs using the Home key + another key. But pressing Home just brings me to the Home screen, no matter what other key I press with it. Any ideas where I'm going wrong? I think I have defined the application I want launched in the keyhelper.conf file, and I've reloaded keyhelper via the terminal, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. Everything else (task switching with Shift + Home, etc) works fine.
Title: Keyhelper Help
Post by: Stubear on August 23, 2005, 10:27:35 pm: Post your keyhelper config files and I can offer some suggestions.

Otherwise, make sure you have set a Launch key and that in keyhelper.conf you have included the tab names as well as the application name

Stu
Title: Keyhelper Help
Post by: icruise on August 24, 2005, 05:31:47 am: Here is my keyhelper.xml file. The only thing I've changed from the sample one that came from the keyhelper website is that I temporarily disabled Shift toggling, since it seemed to cause a problem with TextMaker (the shift would seem to get stuck at weird times and so I would accidentally be selecting text when I just meant to move the cursor).

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And here is the keyhelper.conf file. I'm just using it for testing. I've tried a few different programs with it, and several variations on the syntax.

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Title: Keyhelper Help
Post by: icruise on August 27, 2005, 04:12:33 am: I got this to work after changing a couple of things. I changed the launch key to Address (F10) and then I figured out how the keyhelper.conf file is really supposed to be formatted. I thought the "Applications" referred directly to the tab name on your home screen, but they are referring to the names of the folders under home/QtPalmtop/apps/. So if you add some tabs like I did (an "Internet" tab) you will need to use UserTab1/qtmail, etc. Probably a rookie mistake, but it took me a while to figure out.
Title: Keyhelper Help
Post by: Cresho on August 27, 2005, 05:07:36 am: you know there are three files to get keyhelper to work.

keyhelper config ipk is one that you may be missing.

its a launcher that helps you config things from a gui
Title: Keyhelper Help
Post by: Stubear on August 27, 2005, 10:37:33 am: icruise,

Sorry for not getting back sooner, but I was sent to Tokyo fro work and didn't have web access for 3 days.

Your xml and conf files work fine, as you have already found out - if you have the name of the directory not the tab name (if they differ).

I switched from the Home key to the Address key cause I found I like the Home key for paging through the tabs.

Glad you got it to work.

Stu
Title: Keyhelper Help
Post by: icruise on August 27, 2005, 11:56:17 am: I've been having fun using keyhelper's integration with inputhelper. I now have hotkeys set up that will do things like close the current window or enter a URL in Opera (things for which there is no working keyboard shortcut) and I also enabled the keyboard control of the mouse cursor, so I can navigate web pages completely by the keyboard. It's a very useful piece of software.