System-wide hotkey issue (F7)

[sp4rk3r]

TotalTerminal issues a warning that the F7 key cannot be used as the hotkey because it is already being used as a system-wide hotkey. However, I’ve made sure that F7 is not bound system-wide AND I am able to bind it in TotalFinder’s visor just fine (as a test). This is on Yosemite 10.10.

[ztoups]

I’d recommend taking a look at my last post, linked below. It will take some work for you to do the same, but it’s probably all that will work. I also had to use Karabiner recently to get F4 to work right; you might be able to use it as a work-around that is simpler than hacking plists.
-Zach

TotalTerminal erroneously reports key combination already in use

OK, one last point on this. I finally fixed it for real, since the Trigger option kept malfunctioning after a restart. To enable command + shift + ? for TT, you first have to disable it for Help in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist. In there, one of the entries will use 44 (which is either / or ?’), you can then change which hotkeys trigger the Help command. Even if this entry is set to enabled = false, TT will still read it as a used command. After changing the plist, don’t…