Re: Open Desktop folder as Finder window?

From	Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Open Desktop folder as Finder window?
Date	2015-08-04 13:18 +1200
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID	<040820151318346611%YourName@YourISP.com> (permalink)
References	<55b6e509$0$36592$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> <55BFEADA.7080302@aol.com>

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In article <55BFEADA.7080302@aol.com>, cb <cb@aol.com> wrote:
> Le 28/07/15 04:12, Patty Winter a écrit :
> > 
> > In Yosemite, is there a one-step way to click on the Desktop
> > folder in the Dock and have it open as a Finder window, or do
> > I always have to click the folder once and then click on the
> > Open in Finder option? I haven't been able to find any settings
> > either in the folder options or Finder preferences to do this
> > with a single click.
> 
> No need to use the dock unless you insist on using the mouse/trackpad; 
> the following keyboard shortcut: CMD + Shift + D ('d' as in Desktop) 
> opens the Desktop in a new finder window.

Why bother with three keys when one (or two) will do? 
Set-up an AppleScript / Automator app and assign it to a function key.
I haven't checked, but you may even simply be able to assign
Command-Shift-D to a function key.

I haven't bothered under OS X, but in OS 8 and 9 I had the function
keys set to run various internet applications, so whenever I logged on
via my dial-up account I could press F1, F2, F3 and have the email,
newsreader, and web browser applications all open by the time the modem
had logged in. I can't remember what F4 is set-up to do, but F5 opened
up my "Downloads" folder in Finder. :-)

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Open Desktop folder as Finder window? patty1@sonic.net (Patty Winter) - 2015-07-28 02:12 +0000
  Re: Open Desktop folder as Finder window? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-07-27 22:37 -0400
    Re: Open Desktop folder as Finder window? Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-07-27 20:09 -0700
    Re: Open Desktop folder as Finder window? billy@MIX.COM - 2015-07-28 03:32 +0000
      Re: Open Desktop folder as Finder window? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2015-07-29 01:47 +0000
        Re: Open Desktop folder as Finder window? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-07-29 18:11 +1200
          Re: Open Desktop folder as Finder window? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-07-29 06:37 +0000
  Re: Open Desktop folder as Finder window? cb <cb@aol.com> - 2015-08-04 00:27 +0200
    Re: Open Desktop folder as Finder window? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-03 22:48 +0000
      Re: Open Desktop folder as Finder window? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2015-08-04 18:46 +0000
        Re: Open Desktop folder as Finder window? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-08-04 12:01 -0700
          Re: Open Desktop folder as Finder window? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2015-08-05 15:55 +0000
            Re: Open Desktop folder as Finder window? Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-08-05 09:06 -0700
              Re: Open Desktop folder as Finder window? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-08-05 09:32 -0700
            Re: Open Desktop folder as Finder window? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-08-05 09:31 -0700
              Re: Open Desktop folder as Finder window? Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-08-05 09:32 -0700
        Re: Open Desktop folder as Finder window? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-08-05 09:19 +1200
    Re: Open Desktop folder as Finder window? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-08-04 13:18 +1200

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