Spiro Trikaliotis wrote on Friday, March 06, 2009 2:59 PM: > * On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 01:29:02PM -0500 Brian Mathis wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Spiro Trikaliotis >> <xxx...@spiro.trikaliotis.net> wrote: > >>> Well, we can think about many things: However, this is not the way >>> it works on Windows, obviously. >> >> Windows keeps a systemwide table of hotkeys, and when one is pressed >> Windows runs whatever is in the table as the target. > > Ok. If you know for sure, I stand corrected. However, from the > behaviour, this is not the way it seemed to work to me. > > Can you explain then why a shortcut I define in the quick start does > not get applied? Yes, I defined it directly there, I did not move a > file there.
New data: - On XP, without administrator privileges. - I copied a shortcut from the Start Menu to "C:\usr". - I gave it a hotkey. - It did not work. - I deleted the copied shortcut. - I gave the original shortcut the same hotkey. - It worked. - I got rid of the hot key in the Start Menu. - I copied a shortcut from the Start Menu to "C:\Documents and Settings\My_User_Name". - I gave it the same hotkey. - It did not work. So it seems as if Windows may not be paying attention setting of hotkeys is reproducible at least under some circumstances. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
