Hi meanmechanics,
thanks again for your advice, though I must admit I didn't get it working. Even when I changed already set up combinations that were in the bbkeys.rc (which I opened via the blackbox menu itself) I couldn't use them. Does blackbox have to be installed to access the keyboard to assign functions to certain buttons/combinations?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Hey. Not to my knowledge it does mess a little with custom shortcuts or windows shortcuts. I remember in my first days of using BBLean I got stuck with WIN+R rebooting my machine everytime, in fact I'd set bbkeys shortcut WIN+R to Reboot because at the time it was made more sense for me.
As for your question...I also use another key combination sometimes because I have so many autohotkey shortcuts that sometime I mess things a bit:
If bbkeys is not working (and there may be a plethora of reasons) for you you might try curbing extension.rc (.../bbzero/extension.rc). Below is my own personal setting:
As you can see, under #DESKTOP MOUSE CLICK>#ALTERNATIVES MENU I've added a line: blackbox.desktop.CtrlRightClick: @BBCore.ShowMenu root
This way I can press CTRL+Mouse Right Button to invoke the main menu.
# -----------------------------------------------------
# bbZero 1.17.x - extensions.rc
# Lines starting with # or ! are ignored
# -----------------------------------------------------
# Favorite Tool
# The default editor for menu, styles and settings
blackbox.editor: bbnote.exe
# Alternative menu bullets (a template is in 'docs')
blackbox.appearance.bullet.bitmap: menu-bullets.bmp
blackbox.appearance.arrow.unix: true
# -----------------------------------------------------
# Drag'n-dropped background images are saved here
blackbox.background.rootCommand: style
blackbox.background.enabled: true
blackbox.background.smartWallpaper: true
# -----------------------------------------------------
# Desktop Mouse Clicks
# General: blackbox.desktop.[<mod>]<button>Click: <command>
# <mod> = Alt, Shift, Ctrl
# <button> = Left, Mid, Right, X1, X2, X3, Double
# these are built-in, but may be changed here
! blackbox.desktop.RightClick: @BBCore.ShowMenu root
! blackbox.desktop.MidClick: @BBCore.ShowMenu workspaces
blackbox.desktop.MidClick: @BBCore.ShowMenu Root
# styles menu
blackbox.desktop.AltMidClick: @BBCore.ShowMenu styles >> @BBCore.style %1
# workspaces menu
blackbox.desktop.CtrlLeftClick: @BBCore.ShowMenu workspaces
# tasks menu
blackbox.desktop.CtrlRightClick: @BBCore.ShowMenu tasks
# configuration menu
blackbox.desktop.AltRightClick: @BBCore.ShowMenu configuration
# alternative menu
! blackbox.desktop.CtrlRightClick: @BBCore.ShowMenu alt-menu.rc
blackbox.desktop.CtrlRightClick: @BBCore.ShowMenu root
#disable right-click
blackbox.desktop.RightClick:
blackbox.desktop.marginRight: -1
blackbox.desktop.marginBottom: -1
# -----------------------------------------------------
# Miscellaneous options (uncomment to use)
# command for double left click on a folder in the menu
! blackbox.options.openFolderCommand: explorer.exe /e,"%1"
# other locale may be set (for the clock display)
! blackbox.options.locale: <usa, gbr, rus, fra, ita, etc ...>
# run something after processing the system startup items
! blackbox.startup.run: <any command or @broam>
# enable some debug output during startup (to "blackbox.log"):
blackbox.options.log: startup tray
blackbox.options.UTF8Encoding: true
# use unicode for filenames and UTF-8 for menus
blackbox.options.UTF8Encoding: true
# -----------------------------------------------------
# System dependent Tweak
# Left margin adjustment for contextmenus with icons (normal/sendTo)
! blackbox.contextmenu.itemAdjust: 28/28
# -----------------------------------------------------
# Global font override - for special purposes
# Enable this feature?
blackbox.global.fonts.enabled: false
# override font definitions from styles:
blackbox.global.toolbar.font: verdana
blackbox.global.toolbar.fontHeight: 13
blackbox.global.toolbar.fontWeight: normal
blackbox.global.menu.title.font: verdana
blackbox.global.menu.title.fontHeight: 13
blackbox.global.menu.title.fontWeight: bold
blackbox.global.menu.frame.font: verdana
blackbox.global.menu.frame.fontHeight: 13
blackbox.global.menu.frame.fontWeight: normal
blackbox.global.window.font: verdana
blackbox.global.window.fontHeight: 13
blackbox.global.window.fontWeight: bold
blackbox.menu.grip.enabled: false
blackbox.workspaces.altMethod: false
blackbox.workspaces.styleXPFix: true
# -----------------------------------------------------