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Touchbar Not showing F1 - F12 keys on specific Application
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<blockquote data-quote="renegadeandy" data-source="post: 1758452" data-attributes="member: 191510"><p>Hi everyone.</p><p></p><p>I have a nice new macbook pro - and I have a Java application which has a bundled mac os launcher.</p><p></p><p>I want for this particular application - the F1 - F12 keys to show by default on the touch bar.</p><p></p><p>I have gone into System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts - FN keys and added the application via its supplied launcher to the list of applications.</p><p></p><p>However due to the nature of this application (java) - the program launches as "IBM Host On-Demand".</p><p>[ATTACH=full]26472[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>I have this added to my shortcuts for FN keys here:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]26473[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>The application is installed here /Applications/HostOnDemand: </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]26474[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>When the application launches it seems to 'start another application' which I believe is WSCachedLoader - which is likely some Java Unix process kicked off by the 'Host On-Demand' launcher seen above.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]26475[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>This appears to match up closely to a jar in the /Applications/HostOnDemand folder:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]26476[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>The long and short of this is - that when I launch Host On-Demand, the F keys do not show up on my keyboard. I cannot add WSCachedLoader2.jar to the F keys shortcut list of apps - presumably because it is not a launcher type.</p><p></p><p>Any ideas on how I can make this application 'recognised' by the Keyboard Shortcuts Fn type so that when I launch it, the F keys appears in my touchbar?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="renegadeandy, post: 1758452, member: 191510"] Hi everyone. I have a nice new macbook pro - and I have a Java application which has a bundled mac os launcher. I want for this particular application - the F1 - F12 keys to show by default on the touch bar. I have gone into System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts - FN keys and added the application via its supplied launcher to the list of applications. However due to the nature of this application (java) - the program launches as "IBM Host On-Demand". [ATTACH=FULL]26472[/ATTACH] I have this added to my shortcuts for FN keys here: [ATTACH=FULL]26473[/ATTACH] The application is installed here /Applications/HostOnDemand: [ATTACH=FULL]26474[/ATTACH] When the application launches it seems to 'start another application' which I believe is WSCachedLoader - which is likely some Java Unix process kicked off by the 'Host On-Demand' launcher seen above. [ATTACH=FULL]26475[/ATTACH] This appears to match up closely to a jar in the /Applications/HostOnDemand folder: [ATTACH=FULL]26476[/ATTACH] The long and short of this is - that when I launch Host On-Demand, the F keys do not show up on my keyboard. I cannot add WSCachedLoader2.jar to the F keys shortcut list of apps - presumably because it is not a launcher type. Any ideas on how I can make this application 'recognised' by the Keyboard Shortcuts Fn type so that when I launch it, the F keys appears in my touchbar? [/QUOTE]
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