Remap shortcut keys?

[gee-forr]

Hi all.

I was wondering if there's a way to use something else besides CMD+Space or CTRL+Space? The former is mapped to spotlight, and the latter is mapped to Alfred, both of which I'm extremely reluctant to remap...

I was wondering if it's possible to configure/swap CMD+Shift+E to show the Container select drop down instead of the Send Tab To Container menu. Mainly because CMD+Shift+E used to be the shortcut for activating the Tab Groups view.

Any idea on how to achieve this?

(P.S - just wanna say again, thank you so much for this extension, this extension alone has made me stay on FFx post web extensions)

[smichel17]

Unfortunately, no. There's a few issues about this you can find if you search.

[kesselborn]

(P.S - just wanna say again, thank you so much for this extension, this extension alone has made me stay on FFx post web extensions)

wow -- that's great to hear, thanks.

The shortcut key problem is a real pain: The shortcuts you set need to be statically set during the creation of the extension and can not be configured as far as I know (will need to double check). Furthermore, there is no easy way to find out, which shortcuts are already in use :/
I will check again, if there is anything new in the apis.

[gee-forr]

Are there instructions somewhere on how I can build this myself for local use and development? I wouldn't mind playing around and seeing if I can find a way to make them configurable...

At the very least, I can fork an build a version for myself with my muscle-memoried shortcuts as searches on keyboard shortcut remapping support are not turning up anything promising :(

[kesselborn]

the repository contains a release script which does all the work.
If you just want to build it, this is the call you need:

# create signed addon

web-ext sign --api-key ${WEB_EXT_API_KEY:?"please set WEB_EXT_API_KEY"} \
             --api-secret ${WEB_EXT_API_SECRET:?"please set WEB_EXT_API_SECRET"} \
             --ignore-files tags tabgroups-backup.json tabgroups-backup-small.json web-ext-artifacts *.xpi icons/*.afdesign release versions.json || true

where WEB_EXT_API_KEY and WEB_EXT_API_SECRET must be valid. Alternatively, you can just load this extension in the 'debugging' mode under the addon page (see mozilla documentation about how to build and debug extensions)

[kesselborn]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1303384
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1320332

[kesselborn]

woohoo: apis just landed ... thanks for the hint @fturcheti

note to self: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1421811#c40

[gee-forr]

This is such great news! Let me know if I can help in anyway.

[Bobo1239]

@kesselborn While you're at it:
I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong but when I'm trying to move a tab to another container via Ctrl+Shift+e (as described on the settings page), Firefox's network monitor is opened (as expected). Perhaps change that default hotkey?

[smichel17]

@Bobo1239 conex has been through several (5?) keyboard shortcuts, and there's a conflict for freakin' everything -.-

I think at this point it's best just to wait until shortcut remapping lands in FF60.

[gee-forr]

@kesselborn - you're awesome. Thank you so much.

[grahamperrin]

Thanks … I haven't recently tested any Conex shortcut (on Waterfox 56.0.4), but for reference: here's a shot of an extension apparently allowing shortcut preferences in released Firefox Quantum 58.0.2:

– that shot, after me disabling all shortcuts – and the most recent release of the extension (Diigo …) was November 2017. So I wonder how it was achieved without the more recent API.

[kesselborn]

Yeah: Diigo injects content scripts into each page, which is a different thing (shortcuts only start working when the page is loaded and sometimes they don’t work at all if the JavaScript from the loaded page interferes). I didn’t want to go that route. However: all good now with the new api

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[gee-forr]

Can confirm - upgraded to FFx Nightly just so I could use the new version of conex. It's working beautifully.