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Global shortcut to hide/unhide Helium #71
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Definitely a cool idea. Planned! 💃 |
I added a boss-alert 😄 #75 |
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Yes, but when you do ⌘+H, then it's not that easy to show Helium again! |
You can't use Command+H when Helium isn't frontmost. What is desired is a global shortcut (that will work in any other app and hopefully not clash with other shortcuts) that will always hide Helium. It's unclear that a global shortcut to show Helium is necessary as that isn't enough of an emergency to warrant a shortcut (maybe it would be reasonable to make the hide shortcut, when already hidden, show Helium). |
So this app is for people watch video in work time and can hide it quickly from boss? 🙅 |
Definitely not, but it could be useful to hide it via a keyboard shortcut nevertheless. |
No @ryh , I don't think so because you aren't doing something illegal! |
+1: This is actually what I thought would be the central feature here 😄 I found this while searching for something like the overlays TotalTerminal/TotalFinder provide, but with a browser. Those things are extremely useful! You can show and hide them globally whenever you need them, they auto-hide on unfocus like normal windows, but you can pin them if you need them while working in another window simultaneously. Example: I'm looking for something on StackOverflow and found a nice, but complex answer for my problem, so I want to try it out in an editor while being able to very quickly go back to the answer in my browser. |
From what I can see, @JadenGeller left the development. Hey J!! |
+1 for this feature. |
👍 Would be quite useful to be able to hide Helium at any times with a keyboard shortcut. |
Here is the temporary solution: Open Automator, select to create a Service, configure to have it receive no input in any application. From the library, double-click Utilities » Run AppleScript and enter the following into the large text area:
Save under any name. Assign a keyboard shortcut in System Preferences » Keyboard » Keyboard Shortcuts » Services. It does the job :) |
If anyone uses BetterTouchTool, it's also pretty easy to make an AppleScript that toggles hiding/unhiding Helium and binding that to anything you want. It would be a great feature to have built into the app though. |
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