Hotkeys are key combinations that, when pressed on the keyboard,
will cause the system to take a special action.
There are several types of hotkeys.
- Many hotkeys are hard-wired into the system. These are
called system keys and work everywhere, independent of
the current application. For example, pressing
Ctrl+Alt+Del
will always restart the computer.
See "Key assignments" for a complete
list of system key assignments.
- Object hotkeys can be defined on the "Icon" page in every
object's
properties notebook. After
assigning such a hotkey to an object,
you can open that object just by pressing that key, as if you had
double-clicked on it. For example, you can assign a hotkey to your
favorite calculator application to be able to open it more quickly.
Object hotkeys work in the Presentation Manager
session only.
- By contrast, folder hotkeys work only when a
folder view is currently
active. For example, you can press
Ctrl+E
to have the
objects in the folder sorted by file name extensions.
The &link_wpsobj; allows you to assign hotkeys to more than 30
folder actions on the "Folder hotkeys" page.