Thesaurus shortcut?

You can set your own keyboard shortcuts in:

+System Preferences > Hardware > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard Shortcuts > Application Keyboard Shortcuts > All Applications > click the little plus sign under the window > Application: > All Applications > Menu Title > "Look Up in Dictionary" (type exactly including U&lc) > ctrl opt cmd d (or whatever you want)+

This opens the Dictionary /Thesaurus/Apple/Wikipedia window.

Peter

Have you tried my example?

Hold down the keyboard shortcut you propose. In my case:

+control option command d+ (that is all 4 keys at once).

Peter

alt d = ∂

option shift d = Î

control option command d = Dictionary (now) 🙂

P.

PeterBreis0807 wrote:
Have you tried my example?

Hold down the keyboard shortcut you propose. In my case:

+control option command d+ (that is all 4 keys at once).

I tried your example.
In French the menu item is:

"Rechercher dans le dictionnaire et le thésaurus"

Like you I entered
+control alt cmd d+
The shortcut is correctly displayed in the PrefPane

but it is not added at the end of the menu item and trying to trigger it gives only beep !

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 18 septembre 2009 14:24:46

Of course it may be the French keyboard but some times ago I made different attempts with different main key.
All of them failed the same.
As I didn't remember if I tried with D, I made new attempts after reading your posts.
Nada.

What is the char returned by alt D on English keyboards ?

I tried

cmd alt control D
cmd alt shift D
cmd shift control D

Same behavior.
It rings under 10.4.11
It does nothing under 10.6.11

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 19 septembre 2009 11:50:59

KOENIG Yvan wrote:
Of course it may be the French keyboard but some times ago I made different attempts with different main key.

I recently learnt that some shortcuts do not depend on the login language or the chosen keyboard layout. I tried switching windows within an application using command-` on a Japanese Mac, but that turned out impossible, as the Japanese keyboard only has ` as a secondary key.

I asked some poor salespeople in a Mac shop in Akihabara for help, and together we figured out that Japanese Macs have another shortcut. I think it was command + F1.

Anyhow, it may be set when the system is installed - either from the first login language or through some mechanism that recognises the attached keyboard.

Perhaps there is some such mechanism with French keyboards as well?

Hi Magnus

Sure, they are such trickery but
here the problem is with a custom shortcut which I try to install.

cmd D is used
cmd shift D is used

As peter wrote that ctrl +cmd + alt + D behaves well for him I tried too and it fails.

I made a new attemp with less modifiers:
cmd + ctrl + D and this time, it works.

It's really surprising because pressing alt + _D key_ returns ∂ on French keyboards as it does on English ones.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 19 septembre 2009 15:05:14

Press the entire set of keys then release them to see them in the box.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 18 septembre 2009 13:52:17

Works perfectly here.

P.

Seems that something is odd on my two machines.
Will live without a shortcut as I did for years.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 18 septembre 2009 17:30:16

French keyboard perhaps?

P.

What does option shift d give you on the French keyboard?

P.