Shortcut for open Favorites on Mous position as Popup

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Hello,

how can I setup a Shortcut to open the Dopus favorites on the mouse postion or in the aktive Lister window?
I tried to make a shortcut with the syntax "show favorite" but nothing happends :frowning: .

For any hint, thank you very much.

Best regards

gieri

2

Typing alt-a should do that already with the default English settings. (The letter might be different in other languages. It'll be the the letter in the Favorites menu label which is underlined when you push the alt key.)

Do you want it to do something different to that?

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Hello Leo,

thanx for your reply. Is it possible to show the favorites as floating popup at the cursor position or the aktivated lister window?

Best regards.

gieri

4

At the moment, not easily, unless you want to make individual buttons for all the folders you want to go to. (The problem is that each button has to have a command to close the pop-up afterwards and you can't use an automatically generated list of favourites in that case.)

5

Yeah - I guess it would certainly be nicer to have an option for the toolbar to auto-close after clicking the favorite (optionally though, as you might not want that if you wanted to open more than one favorite), but another "issue" I think you'd have is that as you GROW your list of favorites, the floating toolbar won't grow to accommodate the increasingly larger list of folders. You'd need to take off 'Lock Position' and drag the toolbar to increase its size... or place have the Favorites command/button under another 'menu' button on the floating toolbar which is more clicking.

That said, no reason why you can't use a hotkey to "toggle' the floating toolbar to pop-up under your mouse, and then toggle it off again with the same hotkey:

Toolbar STATE=float POS=mouse NAME=Favorites TOGGLE

Just create a new toolbar called 'Favorites' with a single button on it that runs Favorites SHOWICONS NEWTAB or something like that?

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Great that I found this old post as it allows me to have a custom location and shortcut for the favorites menu!

My current toolbar that I use later on to assign to a shortcut is this

Favorites SHOWICONS NEWTAB=findexisting,tofront KEYARGS ctrl:OPENINDUAL shift:NEW alt:NEWTAB

And the command I run in the shortcut itself is this

Toolbar Favorites FLOAT=default,active,vertical,topopus,hotkeys,taskbar,roundededges POS=mouse AUTOCLOSE TOGGLE

I have just a few questions on how to make it better:
[ol]
[li] If I disable icons in the toolbar, the text is centered. How do I make it left-aligned instead?[/li]
[li] How do I get rid of the extra button "open each favorite folder in new tab". I didn't put it there and don't want to open all my favorites should I click it by mistake[/li]
[li] How do I close the floating bar with Esc key? Currently I either have to click outside the toolbar or click on one of the favorite folders in the list[/li][/ol]