jvthomas90
commented
3 months ago Option 1
Use the shortcut natively provided by MacOS (default is CTRL+FN+F8)to:
- shift the keyboard focus to the menu bar's (left-hand side) status menu items (right-hand side)
- and then utilize the left/right arrow keys to traverse the highlighted item to wherever the SpacesRenamer icon is
- then use the down arrow to activate it
- and once you're inside SpacesRenamer, you can use
TABorSHIFT+TABto navigate within the various text-boxes throughout, as well as the update/quit buttons at the bottom.
PRO
It's utilizing a built-in and natively supported method, so it's free, fully compatible with all setups, etc
CON
It's a cumbersome method, at least in my eyes. And it's a roundabout way of achieving your much more direct "hotkey invocation → SpacesRenamer activation" request.
Option 2
Use the 4 week trial period to give Bartender a spin and see if it sticks.
PRO
It directly addresses your feature request, i.e. allows you to bind a custom-configurable hotkey to Spaces Renamer, or any other important status-menu item for that matter (though I myself just prefer to invoke the Spotlight-esque "Quick Search" bar and start typing in the name of the app icon I want to find and hit enter – a few extra milliseconds lost in the process, perhaps, but it reduces muscle memory to one shortcut and is still fairly fast enough to near the speed of thought that I honestly don't even notice the difference or any percieved inconvenience when compared to the option of a custom hotkey binding)
CON
It's $22 after the 4-week trial is over ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Gotta say I use this program many times a day and love it so far - would like to request a feature - just a hot key that'd pull up all my workspaces (for mac this is clicking the top right icon)