aldaviva / hotkeys

⌨ Add handy missing keyboard shortcuts to other programs using AutoHotkey.

hotkeys

This is an AutoHotkey script that adds useful keyboards.

• Keyboard shortcuts
  • Set Windows Explorer view mode
  • Location clipboard
  • Type different characters
  • Send reserved hotkeys to other applications
  • Minimize active window

Keyboard shortcuts

Set Windows Explorer view mode

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl+1	Medium Icons
Ctrl+2	List
Ctrl+3	Details

Change the view of a Windows Explorer directory list UI. This applies to Explorer folder windows as well as dialogs whose titles start with "Open," "Save," and "Browse."

Location clipboard

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl+Shift+C	Copy location from Windows Explorer
Ctrl+Shift+V	Paste location into Windows Explorer or Total Commander

Total Commander has its own copy location command (cm_CopySrcPathToClip), so that functionality is not duplicated here.

Type different characters

Shortcut	Example	Action
Win+-	–	Type en dash (for ranges)
Win+Shift+-	—	Type em dash (like a colon)
Win+Shift+,	‹	Type left single angle quotation mark
Win+Shift+.	›	Type right single angle quotation mark
Win+Ctrl+Shift+,	«	Type left double angle quotation mark
Win+Ctrl+Shift+.	»	Type right double angle quotation mark
Win+Ctrl+Alt+,	≤	Type less than or equal to
Win+Ctrl+Alt+.	≥	Type greater than or equal to
Win+8	×	Type multiplication sign
Win+0	°	Type degree sign
Win+Alt+↑	↑	Type up arrow
Win+Alt+→	→	Type right arrow
Win+Alt+↓	↓	Type down arrow
Win+Alt+←	←	Type left arrow
Win+Alt+.	…	Type ellipsis

Send reserved hotkeys to other applications

Shortcut	Action
Win+Alt+T	Type Win+Ctrl+Alt+T

This is used to make Win+Alt+T show the PS Tray Factory menu.

Normally, this shortcut conflicts with Windows Explorer, which reserves Win+T for cycling through taskbar buttons. This is useless to me because I use Alt+Tab to switch windows and have no other use for interacting with taskbar buttons with the keyboard.

To make this work with PS Tray Factory, you have to set "Show the system tray menu" to Win+Ctrl+Alt+T in PS Tray Factory › Options › System Tray Icons List.

Minimize active window

Shortcut	Action
Win+PgUp	Minimize active window

This is only necessary and available on Windows ≤ 7. It's here to work around a bug with DWM and Vivaldi where minimizing Vivaldi would disable DWM compositing. Windows 8 and later can't disable DWM and therefore don't have this problem, so you can use your favorite window manager helper like WindowSizeGuard or WinSplit Revolution to minimize the active window instead.