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Rambunctious Ramblings
Ashish Vashisht (MoGlee)'s take on Life & Technology

Thursday, September 19, 2013

More Mac Tips and Tricks

Google Chrome and F5
So for some reason Google Chrome in OSX does not support F5 for refresh. This is easy to fix it turns
out:

1. Open System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts

2. Click on Application Shortcuts in the Left Pane
3. Click the + button, select Google Chrome as the Application and enter "Reload This Page" as
the menu title
4. Highlight the Keyboard Shortcut field and press F5

Source: http://productforums.google.com/d/msg/chrome/If0TdQ2m6hU/ZSrbu8BCDpwJ (Instructions

for Lion are above)
Games on a Mac and Hot Corners
I have Hot Corners enabled on my Mac. When I try to play a Full Screen game, the Hot Corners keep
activating. I searched for some way to disable Hot Corners quickly, but none exists. However, it
seems this can be done using AppleScript. What it involves is creating an AppleScript that disables
and reenables your Hot Corners on the basis of your input. There are a couple of glitches with this:
firstly, if you want to modify the Hot Corners configuration to be something different, you have to
modify the AppleScript and if you want to setup a Hot Corner to show Notification Center, then it
doesn't work via AppleScript.

Here's the AppleScript I ended up using:

repeat
activate

set question to display dialog "Do you Want to Enable Hot Corners?" buttons {"Yes", "No
set answer to button returned of question

if answer is equal to "No" then

tell application "System Events"
activate
if UI elements enabled then
tell expose preferences
set properties of the top left screen corner to {activity:none, modifiers:{}}
-- set properties of the top right screen corner to {activity:none, modifiers:{}}
set properties of the bottom left screen corner to {activity:none, modifiers:{}}
set properties of the bottom right screen corner to {activity:none, modifiers:{}}

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end tell
else
tell application "System Preferences"
activate
set current pane to pane "com.apple.preference.universalaccess"
display dialog "UI element scripting is not enabled. Check \"Enable access for assi
end tell
end if
end tell
return

end if

if answer is equal to "Yes" then

tell application "System Events"
activate
if UI elements enabled then
tell expose preferences
set properties of the top left screen corner to {activity:all windows, modifiers:{}
-- set properties of the top right screen corner to {activity:show desktop, modifie
set properties of the bottom left screen corner to {activity:«constant ****lpad», m
set properties of the bottom right screen corner to {activity:dashboard, modifiers:
end tell
else
tell application "System Preferences"
activate
set current pane to pane "com.apple.preference.universalaccess"
display dialog "UI element scripting is not enabled. Check \"Enable access for assi
end tell
end if
end tell
return

end if

if answer is equal to "Cancel" then

return

end if

end repeat

Some useful links on the same:

• My original inspiration: https://gist.github.com/klynch/827581

• The repeat comes from here: http://dev.dota2.com/showthread.php?t=102450

• General Scripting Guidelines: http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=24773

• And some more: http://www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/features/system-

prefs.html

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