https://bwinton.github.io/weblog.latte.ca/enSat, 13 Apr 2019 21:03:19 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttps://bwinton.github.io/weblog.latte.ca/blake/tech/thunderbird/quit/Blake Winton<div><p><a href="http://ehsanakhgari.org/blog">A co-worker</a> of mine recently mentioned that he had a problem where he all-too-often accidentally quit his applications by hitting ⌘-q (command-q). Since he has been having problems with Thunderbird that I can’t fix, I thought I might do a little digging and see if I could come up with some way of helping him. And so here’s what I found:</p> <p>In the System Preferences application, there’s a “Keyboard” section.</p> <p><img alt="The Keyboard Preference Pane" src="https://bwinton.github.io/weblog.latte.ca/images/blake/Quit/1-Keyboard.png" title="Keyboard"></p> <p>One of the things you can choose in that section is “Keyboard Shortcuts”.</p> <p><img alt="The Keyboard Shortcuts" src="https://bwinton.github.io/weblog.latte.ca/images/blake/Quit/2-Shortcuts.png" title="Shortcuts"></p> <p>Pick a relatively innocuous function, like turning Zoom on and off.</p> <p>(Note: DO NOT choose Front Row for this!)</p> <p><img alt="The Access Shortcuts" src="https://bwinton.github.io/weblog.latte.ca/images/blake/Quit/3-Access.png" title="Access"></p> <p>And assign that function to ⌘-q.</p> <p><img alt="The New Shortcut" src="https://bwinton.github.io/weblog.latte.ca/images/blake/Quit/4-%E2%8C%98Q.png" title="⌘Q"></p> <p>Now, whenever you hit ⌘-q, it will do whatever you selected, instead of quitting the application. Ta-da!</p></div>ehsanmozillaquithttps://bwinton.github.io/weblog.latte.ca/blake/tech/thunderbird/quit/Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:48:05 GMT