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Add keyboard shortcut to start screensaver #71
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A pretty easy procedure, as the app doesn't need to be involved. A tutorial to help you out can be found here. |
Thanks! Yes, I saw that tutorial before. The issue I'm having is that when the Aerial.scr file is accessed, instead of starting the screensaver, the settings menu for Aerial is opened. Any ideas? |
did you do the |
Not sure what you mean by that. I did the PowerShell shortcut. |
at the end of the command, type |
There is an option to start aerial via the command line. If you also put at the end command the /s argument, aerial will start in full screen mode. The command should look something like You can also create a shortcut to reproduce this cmd command. Right click on your Desktop, choose New->Shortcut and paste this |
Unfortunately, neither of these methods have worked for me. Here's the command I'm using: The command line shortcut when opened quickly opens a blank icon in the taskbar then dissapears and nothing happens. The PowerShell shortcut still takes me to the Aerial settings menu. |
Seems like you are encountering a problem that many users report when using aerial 0.5.4, the process for the screensaver starts but not the actual screensaver. If possible try reverting to aerial 0.5.3 and please try the procedure again. |
Can I have both versions installed? Don't want to uninstall and lose my settings and cached videos. |
Unfortunatelly, only one version of Aerial can run at a time. You can remove and reinstall Aerial without losing your personal settings or cached videos (not official but worked for me 2 out of 3 times that I have reverted to an earlier version).
Note again that this is not an official procedure, but worth taking the risk since it has be proven to work. |
With version v1.0.0 you can launch Aerial from the app tray. It isn't a keyboard shortcut, but it might help. I'll keep this open because I like the idea of using a keyboard shortcut to start the Screensaver. I don't know if it will be an in-app solution or a guide on the wiki though. |
Looking forward to seeing the shortcut key! Would be great to press a single key when leaving the keyboard for a quick kitchen or bathroom break! |
The feature is finally added natively in v1.2.0! The default shortcut is |
It would be fantastic to be able to start the screensaver running with a keyboard shortcut. You could normally create a shortcut to the .scr file and asign a keyboard shortcut to that but wit Aerial it instead oppens the settings menu.
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