Clean way to disable Front Row keyboard shortcut?

Mason Mark mason at masonmark.com
Sun Feb 12 14:45:19 PST 2006


I have years of muscle memory that tells me Command-Esc is LaunchBar  
(or Butler or whatever contender I am using to launch things quickly  
from the keyboard).

Unfortunately, my work Mac has changed to a new Intel iMac and that  
keyboard shortcut is hardwired to start Front Row. Unlike all other  
keyboard shortcuts, Front Row does not appear in the Keyboard  
preferences pane, and so the associated keyboard shortcut cannot be  
modified there.

So my app-launch shortcut is no longer:

1. Cmd-Esc

..but rather:

1. Cmd-Esc
2. curse out loud
3. Cmd-Opt-Esc (this thankfully immediately kills FR while doing its  
slow animated whoosh-in routine)
4. Esc (needed to close the Force Quit dialog that is an unfortunate  
side effect of the previous step)
5. Ctrl-Space (my new keyboard shortcut that actually invokes the  
launcher)

20+ times per day, this sequence is very irritating.

I tried to modify myself and stop pressing the keys, but I just...  
can't... do it...

I've read online that using the Front Row Enabler hack will actually  
make Front Row appear in the Keyboard pane. But, this is a work Mac  
and I don't want to patch two system files. Is there any known way to  
do this that is less invasive? Say, editing a plist, or something?

Cheers,
--
Mason Mark
Five Speed Software, Inc.
http://www.fivespeed.com





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