CGinoux
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Q: Shortcut to show Mail.app first at the screen (MacbookPro-El Capitan)

Hey !

 

Excuse my bad English !

I often switch between Mail.app and others applications.

Is there a shortcut to show my mailbox in Mail.app ? It will be very very efficient in my case...

Maybe I can create one... But I don't know how to do that !

Somebody can help me, maybe ?

 

Thanks ;-)

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)

Posted on Sep 8, 2016 8:48 AM

by Luis Sequeira1,Solvedanswer
Luis Sequeira1 Luis Sequeira1
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A:

So you want to do two things with just one shortcut - switch to Mail and show the message viewer.

This can be achieved easily in two steps (command-tab to switch to Mail and command-0 to show the message viewer).

 

Or just use command-tab if the message viewer was already the active window before you switched out of Mail.

 

It can also be achieved to do this in one step even if the message viewer was not the front window in Mail. I really don't think this is worth the trouble, but anyway if I really wanted to achieve this I would use Automator to create a little Service and then add a keyboard shortcut for this Service, so that it can be used on demand just by pressing the shortcut. If you feel this is important, I can try and create one for you. It is not hard to do.

Posted on Sep 8, 2016 10:47 AM

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Q: Shortcut to show Mail.app first at the screen (MacbookPro-El Capitan)

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  • by Luis Sequeira1,

    Luis Sequeira1 Luis Sequeira1 Sep 8, 2016 9:06 AM in response to CGinoux
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    Sep 8, 2016 9:06 AM in response to CGinoux

    Not sure if this is what you mean, but the shortcut to show the message viewer in Mail is Command-0 (that is a command zero).

  • by CGinoux,

    CGinoux CGinoux Sep 8, 2016 10:11 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1
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    Mac OS X
    Sep 8, 2016 10:11 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

    Hey !

    This is a cool shortcut, but it doesn't solve my problem...
    In fact, it's when I'm in an other application, create a shortcut to show the message viewer in Mail.

    Your shortcut works only if I'm in Mail, writing a new message for example.

     

    I'm not sure to be clear ^^.

  • by Luis Sequeira1,Solvedanswer

    Luis Sequeira1 Luis Sequeira1 Sep 8, 2016 10:47 AM in response to CGinoux
    Level 6 (11,948 points)
    Sep 8, 2016 10:47 AM in response to CGinoux

    So you want to do two things with just one shortcut - switch to Mail and show the message viewer.

    This can be achieved easily in two steps (command-tab to switch to Mail and command-0 to show the message viewer).

     

    Or just use command-tab if the message viewer was already the active window before you switched out of Mail.

     

    It can also be achieved to do this in one step even if the message viewer was not the front window in Mail. I really don't think this is worth the trouble, but anyway if I really wanted to achieve this I would use Automator to create a little Service and then add a keyboard shortcut for this Service, so that it can be used on demand just by pressing the shortcut. If you feel this is important, I can try and create one for you. It is not hard to do.

  • by CGinoux,

    CGinoux CGinoux Sep 8, 2016 10:48 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1
    Level 1 (4 points)
    Mac OS X
    Sep 8, 2016 10:48 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

    Yeah ! It's that !

    I will try with automator ! ;-)

  • by CGinoux,

    CGinoux CGinoux Sep 8, 2016 10:54 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1
    Level 1 (4 points)
    Mac OS X
    Sep 8, 2016 10:54 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

    This solved my "problem".

    Thanks a lot !