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Forums -> UltraMon™ -> single key hotkeys
Josh   2005-10-15 18:58
I'm just wondering if it's at all possible for ultramon to use a single key hot key. As in, not force it to use ctrl + alt as a bare minimum.

I understand why ultramon normally forces this, but I actually want to make use of a special key on my keyboard (it's got osme extra keys like email and web and scrap like that). The thing is, in this case I have a key that is not used by anything at all and I'd like to set it to a hotkey in ultramon. Ultramon currently has no problem with the key, but it forces to use of ctrl+alt+special key. I'd like to be able to map just that single key.

I know I could do this by simply writting my own very basic program, but I'd hate to have to run another program 24/7 just for this little thing.
Christian Studer   2005-10-15 23:11
Not via the user interface (except for special keys such as the function keys), but you could remove the modifier keys CTRL+ALT by editing the registry.

To do this, run regedit.exe, go to the key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Realtime Soft\UltraMon\Hotkeys', then double-click the hotkey you want to edit (hotkeys are ordered the same way as in the user interface) and change the byte at offset 9 (10th byte) from 03 to 00.

For example: you have assigned a hotkey of CTRL+ALT+N to the 'Move window to next monitor' action. In the registry this would look like this:

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 4E 03 00 00

To change the hotkey for this action to just N, you would set the 10th byte to 00. The registry value would then look like this:

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 4E 00 00 00

You'll need to restart UltraMon for the change to take effect.

Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
Josh   2005-10-16 05:24
Thank you Christian, you're awsome. You've always got the answers I need. :)
Josh   2005-10-22 19:47
I'm sorry to bother you with this again Christian but I was hoping you might have some clue as to why minimizing and maximizing remote desktop causes this hotkey to run?

It functions properly, but for some reason when I open remote desktop it runs this hotkey. Which can get very annoying since I have it set to open a program.

Just to check I've also removed this hotkey to see if it does it anyways, and it does not. It only does it if ultramon is running and this hotkey is set.

My current hotkey settings are below (I'm sorry if it pasted funny, I cut out about 20 rows worth of plain 00)
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Realtime Soft\UltraMon\Hotkeys]
"0"=hex:02,00,00,00,0a,00,00,00,ff,00,01,00,43,00,3a,00,5c,00,50,00,72,00,6f,\
00,67,00,72,00,61,00,6d,00,20,00,46,00,69,00,6c,00,65,00,73,00,20,00,28,00,\
78,00,38,00,36,00,29,00,5c,00,54,00,72,00,69,00,6c,00,6c,00,69,00,61,00,6e,\
00,5c,00,74,00,72,00,69,00,6c,00,6c,00,69,00,61,00,6e,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,\
65,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
Christian Studer   2005-10-22 23:23
Do you use CTRL+ALT+BREAK to switch Remote Desktop between windowed and fullscreen mode?

Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
Josh   2005-10-23 05:20
Nope, just the standard minimize button that it has normally. It also seems to run the hotkey when I first open the remote desktop window. As well as minimizing and maximizing it.

I understand that single key hotkeys arn't supported anywyas so if I can't fix it it's cool. You've already helped me much more then most developers would. I was sorta just hoping it would be something obvious.
Christian Studer   2005-10-23 09:12
Unfortunately I don't know what might cause this.

I tried to reproduce the issue by manually creating the same hotkey, but this didn't cause any problems with Remote Desktop.

My keyboard doesn't have the special key you're using for the hotkey though.

Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
Josh   2005-10-23 16:14
Well if it doesn't happen for you that must mean it's something i can solve on my own anyways. Must be some other program working in conjuction with ultramon that I'm just not seeing. I'll solve it one way or another. Thanks for taking the time I appreciate it.
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