Hi All!
I would like to know how I can set a custom keyboard shortcut to open the current folder with Visual Studio Code.
Answer depends on the desktop that you are using, and if the folder is a fixed name or selected from the File Manager. Also whether this a keyboard shortcut or a desktop shortcut.
Keyboard: Most desktops have Setting for creating shortcuts.
Desktop: Most desktop, if you right-click the application or the desktop the context menu will have a option, and then you just fill in the dialog.
Search for “application shortcut desktop_in_use”
cd /bla/bla/bla && code .My bad for not including the desktop. I am using the KDE plasma and I am looking to create a keyboard shortcut.
It does have an option called custom shortcuts, but I am not exactly sure how to configure it
Look at the examples → click Edit↓ → New
I am creating a global shortcut. So what should be the command/url?
I am not looking to create a shortcut for a specific folder, but any folder in general.
So this command won’t work I guess:
cd /bla/bla/bla && code .
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kde menu editor
Sometimes you want to know what is being executed in the menu. This is the place to find out. -
kde custom shortcuts
This doc could be better. -
visualstudio command line help
Perhaps--user-data-dir. If you want to get fancy, the command could be a bash script.
The home page for KDE doc is here.
I executed the following commands to find vscode’s home page (also in pamac & pamac GUI):
pacman -Ss vscode # search
pacman -Si code # info on package; URL goes to github, which has a link for vscodeI use to use KDE, and I would have used the above steps.
KDE use to have short animated gifs in their userbase, but they haven’t been updated for plasma. But this 3 minute video should be helpful. The creator uses the kde menu editor. At 1:16 he clickes the “New Item”. You are able to add a shortcut too. It was the same way in KDE4.
You can’t
You’ll have to be specific - a computer cannot guess what you want