The entry field at the bottom of the page allows you to define a hotkey for this object. This requires that you have enabled the "Object hotkeys" feature in the "&xwp; Setup" object. Otherwise the entry field is disabled; this also happens if the &xwp; hook is not working right. You can check the "Status" page in "&xwp; Setup" to see if the &xwp; hook has been loaded successfully.

After you have defined an object hotkey, you can always press this hotkey to have the object opened in its default view (as if you had double-clicked on its icon). This works for all objects, that is, folders, files, program objects, settings objects, and so on.

Note: Do not confuse object hotkeys with folder hotkeys, as displayed in the "Workplace Shell" object. Object hotkeys are used to open objects using a key definition and work everywhere, while folder hotkeys are shortcuts to certain folder commands and work in folders only.

To define an object hotkey, click into the entry field at the bottom of the page and simply press the key combination which you want to use as the object hotkey (for example, press Ctrl+Alt+C). The entry field will then isplay this key combination. Then press the "Set" button to have the hotkey registered with the object.

To remove an existing object hotkey, press the "Clear" button.

Remarks:

  1. In the &link_syssetupfdr;, you can find the "Keyboard" object, which allows you to view all currently defined object hotkeys at once.

  2. If you have a "multimedia" or similar keyboard with more than 102 keys, you can the same "Keyboard" object to register those extra keys as function keys and then use them as object hotkeys as well.
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