Hot Key equivalent of 'Green circle'?
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iPenguin
Hey, Look!
By default there's no key command for the green (zoom) button in windows.
To make it have a keyboard shortcut, in System Preferences go to the "Keyboard and Mouse" pane. Then select the "Keyboard Shortcuts" tab. There you can make a new keyboard shortcut (click the + button). In the setting window that slides down make it for "All Applications" and the menu title should be "Zoom" (without the quotation marks). Then set the key command to whatever you want it to be (I use Apple-Control-Z).
This works for most applications, but for some it doesn't since it's really making a key command for menu items labeled "Zoom" and not the green button itself. For example, it won't work in applications with "Zoom Window" menu's instead of "Zoom" (although you could just make a different shortcut for it too, if you want), and the Finder doesn't have any sort of "Zoom" menu item at all so there your only option is to use the mouse...
Hope this helps!
-iPenguin
To make it have a keyboard shortcut, in System Preferences go to the "Keyboard and Mouse" pane. Then select the "Keyboard Shortcuts" tab. There you can make a new keyboard shortcut (click the + button). In the setting window that slides down make it for "All Applications" and the menu title should be "Zoom" (without the quotation marks). Then set the key command to whatever you want it to be (I use Apple-Control-Z).
This works for most applications, but for some it doesn't since it's really making a key command for menu items labeled "Zoom" and not the green button itself. For example, it won't work in applications with "Zoom Window" menu's instead of "Zoom" (although you could just make a different shortcut for it too, if you want), and the Finder doesn't have any sort of "Zoom" menu item at all so there your only option is to use the mouse...
Hope this helps!
-iPenguin