Sorry If this has already come up I did a search and couldn't find anything relevant to JD2.

Are shortcuts on the roadmap for JD2? I know they came up several times and were going to be implemented in JD1 but never were. Without shortcuts JD suffers greatly as all the submenus are very clunky to use via mouse.

Shortcuts are really important for any program and make workflow faster and less frustrating/fatiguing. It's also worth mention that for some disabled users shortcuts can make using programs easier or even possible.

If it helps I'd be happy to put together a proposed shortcut layout for JD2.


Cheers.

[Mystery]

You can see and define all (possible) Shortcuts in the Settings.
It's the small Point "Professional Settings" (Or similair, I'm using German language). It's the Point with the exclamation mark in a red triangle.
Scroll down until you reach the point "ShortcutSettings.*" while * means the action you want to use.
"null" means undefined

Cool but it's missing loads of shortcuts. Here's the one's I'd like to see in there:

Switch to Downloads Tab
Switch to Linkgrabber Tab
Switch to Settings Tab
Enable
Disable
Rename
Move Item Up
Move Item Down
Expand Item
Collapse Item
Move To New Package
Set Download Directory
Set Download Password
Clean Up All Links


Any chance we can get these implemented?

[pspzockerscene]

Will be done in JD2!

GreeZ psp

[raztoki]

what psp means is before stable release....

Cool thanks, What do you mean "before stable realease"?

[raztoki]

As in... JD2 is in beta state currently, before it makes it to the final state (stable) things like keyboard shortcuts will need to be done. For example we are wanting to make them user definable.

I ask because it's over a year now since the last response here.
Is there any way to add shortcuts like start downloads? I only found a config named "org.jdownloader.gui.shortcuts.ShortcutSettings.json" but it isn't directly linked to the keys in the advanced settings.
Alternatively, is there a possibility to add new keys for yourself in the advanced settings?

[Lram32]

Hi,

Yes, you can customize the shortcuts.
For example:
Do right click at downloads/linkbrabber tab → open menu manager
and customize the available buttons

Greetings,

Thank you! This option is also to be found in User Interface, where I never searched

[Lram32]

No problem, thanks for the feedback

Greetings,

Hi,

ich vermisse leider noch immer die Möglichkeit die Tabs mittels Tastatur umzuschalten.

Wird das noch in absehbarer Zeit eingebaut?
Da ich recht viel mit der Tastatur erledige, wäre das echt hilfreich.

[MarcS]

Originally Posted by Lram32

Yes, you can customize the shortcuts.
Do right click at downloads/linkbrabber tab → open menu manager
and customize the available buttons

Doesn't work in latest (july 15, 2022) MacOS version of JDownloader2. Right click on tab does not open the menu manager.

Originally Posted by Specter

This option is also to be found in User Interface, where I never searched

But where? I searched and didn't find it :-(

Originally Posted by tnuctipun

ich vermisse leider noch immer die Möglichkeit die Tabs mittels Tastatur umzuschalten.
Da ich recht viel mit der Tastatur erledige, wäre das echt hilfreich.

Same here.
How do you switch between Downloads tab and Linkgrabber tab with the keyboard?
I didn't find keyboard shortcuts for these tabs. I would prefer cmd-1 and cmd-2.

[pspzockerscene]

Originally Posted by MarcS

Doesn't work in latest (july 15, 2022) MacOS version of JDownloader.

Please describe, which action you've tried to modify and which shortcut combination you've tried to use and provide a log:

Please post your log-ID here | bitte poste deine Log-ID hier.

-psp-

[MarcS]

Originally Posted by pspzockerscene

Please describe, which action you've tried to modify

I tried to right-click / cmd-click / ctrl-click / option-click etc.pp on the Downloads and Linkgrabber tab to open the menu manager as Lram32 suggested. No matter which modifier key(s) I pressed when clicking, never anything at all happened.

and which shortcut combination you've tried to use

Exactly that is the problem. I didn't know which shortcut to press to switch between the Downloads and Linkgrabber tab via keyboard, because there is no visible clue anywhere, and I didn't find a setting where I could set or modify such keyboard shortcut.

But 5 minutes ago, I found this posting: https://board.jdownloader.org/showpo...10&postcount=6
in a thread from 12 years ago where drbits wrote:

Thus, Ctrl-tab should move between Tabs

so I tried ctrl-tab (which is unusual for MacOS) and IT WORKS. Wow, I finally can switch tabs via keyboard, after several years using JD2...

[pspzockerscene]

Originally Posted by MarcS

I tried to right-click / cmd-click / ctrl-click / option-click etc.pp on the Downloads and Linkgrabber tab to open the menu manager as Lram32 suggested. No matter which modifier key(s) I pressed when clicking, never anything at all happened.

So your problem is that you cannot find/open the menu manager in the first place?
Rightlick anywhere in the linkgrabber- or download-tab --> Click on "Open menu manager"
Screenshot:

Originally Posted by MarcS

so I tried ctrl-tab (which is unusual for MacOS) and IT WORKS. Wow, I finally can switch tabs via keyboard, after several years using JD2...

Well you could have also asked us earlier...
EDIT
Which combination is more common for MacOS?
I'm not a Mac user...

[MarcS]

Originally Posted by pspzockerscene

Well you could have also asked us earlier...

;-)

Which combination is more common for MacOS?
I'm not a Mac user...

In most apps, it is option-cmd-arrows (right and left arrows). But you can usually overwrite these with (standard MacOS) Settings->Keyboard->Shortcuts (either/both individually for this one app or for all apps). This works by MacOS looking for a menu command with the text "Show Next Tab" or "Show previous Tab", and then swivelling the keyboard shortcut. You do not even need to end and relaunch the app - shortcut swivelling works while apps are running. Unfortunately this doesn't work with Java apps, because they're not using the system menus.

[MarcS]

OK, so I searched the menu manager for setting the keyboard shortcut to switch between tabs (Downloads & Linkgrabber) - but I only found lots of options for menus and items inside these tabs, and not for the tab headers themselves.
Where can you go one level up to set preferences for the tabs inside the main window?

When I right-click into the toolbar above the tabbar, I can open the "Toolbar manager".
Right-clicking the tabbar does not show a contextual menu.

At the bottom, there is a button with screwdriver&wrench icon which opens a contextual menu (right click doesn't work here) with an item "Customize this bottom panel" (which probably should be renamed to "Bottombar manager" to be consistent with the other managers).

Where can you configure the tabs?

[pspzockerscene]

Originally Posted by MarcS

Where can you configure the tabs?

Afaik you can't.
You can only configure hotkeys for actions visible inside menus/context menu.

[Jiaz]

Originally Posted by MarcS

I tried to right-click / cmd-click / ctrl-click / option-click etc.pp on the Downloads and Linkgrabber tab to open the menu manager as Lram32 suggested. No matter which modifier key(s) I pressed when clicking, never anything at all happened.

@MarcS: You can also open the menu editors via Settings->User Interface -> Menus and Toolbars

[Jiaz]

Originally Posted by MarcS

Where can you configure the tabs?

So you bascially would like to be able to configure hotkey for
1.) iterate tabs
2.) switch to next tab
3.) switch to previous tab
optional.) assign hotkey for tab xy ?

[MarcS]

Originally Posted by Jiaz

@MarcS: You can also open the menu editors via Settings->User Interface -> Menus and Toolbars

That was the first I tried (years ago... and again every now and then). You can change the main menu (on MacOS at the top of the screen, not in the main window), the toolbar, the contents of the Downloads and LinkGrabber tabs, the tray menu, and the bottom bar/panel. That's a very big chunk of the UI which is configurable.

However, what you cannot change there is the tabbar holding the tab headers (buttons) named "Downloads" and "LinkGrabber". And you cannot set/change the keyboard shortcut(s) to switch to those tabs...

So you bascially would like to be able to configure hotkey for
1.) iterate tabs

This is already implemented (ctrl-tab) as I learned today. However, it is very badly documented...
And I don't like the fixed, unchangeable shortcut ctrl-tab, since it's uncommon on MacOS. Such commands use the cmd-modifier, not ctrl.

2.) switch to next tab

That is the same as 1) IMHO - what do you think is the difference?

3.) switch to previous tab

Also already implemented (ctrl-shft-tab). Worse than 1) because you're breaking your fingers trying to type this with the left hand only.

optional.) assign hotkey for tab xy ?

Yes please. cmd-1 for Downloads and cmd-2 for LinkGrabber. If you continue this enumeration you would then assume cmd-3 for Settings, but on MacOS you always activate settings with cmd-, (comma), and this IS ALREADY implemented. Yay...

[Jiaz]

@MarcS: Yes, iterate = same as next
So you need the ability to customize the shotcuts/hotkeys for those actions, right? and maybe assign direct hotkeys for certain tabs?

[MarcS]

Originally Posted by Jiaz

@MarcS: Yes, iterate = same as next
So you need the ability to customize the shotcuts/hotkeys for those actions, right? and maybe assign direct hotkeys for certain tabs?

I'd like the ability to customize the hardcoded ctrl-tab and shft-ctrl-tab, yes.

But direct hotkeys for Downloads & LinkGrabber would be even better. Since you rarely change these once they're set, Advanced Settings would suffice:
"GraphicalUserInterfaceSetting: Shortcut for Downloads tab" (default value: meta pressed 1)
"GraphicalUserInterfaceSetting: Shortcut for LinkGrabber tab" (default value: meta pressed 2)

[MarcS]

Yesterday I launched JD2, and while it was starting up I first managed to choose it with the (MacOS) cmd-tab process chooser, and then type cmd-W before JD2 finished launching.
It crashed.
So I tried to launch it again, only to get a bunch of error messages.
I ended up deleting its folder and re-installing JD2.

And today I dragged a link into the main window to activate the LinkGrabber *in the background*, then typed cmd-W to close the browser tab I started the drag from. However, JD2 happened to be the active process and not my browser, so the shortcut cmd-W closed the JD2 window...

1) How do you re-open the main JD2 window if you (accidentially) closed it?

2) NEVER, EVER do I want to close the main JD2 window. There's absolutely no reason to do this. Either you quit the app (with cmd-Q), or the window must stay open.

Please remove the hardcoded shortcut Meta-W (close Window) for the main window. Even better, remove the possibility to close that window at all.

[Jiaz]

Originally Posted by MarcS

1) How do you re-open the main JD2 window if you (accidentially) closed it?

Click on "JDownloader" text from the tray icon context menu

Originally Posted by MarcS

2) NEVER, EVER do I want to close the main JD2 window. There's absolutely no reason to do this. Either you quit the app (with cmd-Q), or the window must stay open.

It's normal supported close window operation and JDownloader is still running/available via tray icon.

Originally Posted by MarcS

Please remove the hardcoded shortcut Meta-W (close Window) for the main window. Even better, remove the possibility to close that window at all.

No hardcoded shortcut. That key simply sends the close window command to application. And closing the main window (minimize to tray) has been supported ever since.

The issue is that CMD+T doesn't open the window again like it's supposed to do