I’ve had requests from a number of people asking for a hotkey to pop up Default Folder X’s menus under the mouse. That way you don’t have to go all the way up to the menubar to get to your Favorite and Recent folders. Default Folder X doesn’t currently have a keyboard shortcut for this, but you can make one easily with any macro utility that supports AppleScript. Keyboard Maestro is one example.

Just configure your macro program to run this AppleScript:

    with timeout of 0 seconds
        ignoring application responses
            tell application "Default Folder X"
                ShowMenu
            end tell
        end ignoring
    end timeout

That’s all there is to it!  Thanks to Scott Mintzer for jogging my memory on this.

Update – Andrew Gara wrote to remind me: If you’re running Default Folder X with its “Show icons and menus in the Dock” setting turned off, the application target in the AppleScript should be “Default Folder X Helper” instead of “Default Folder X”. Thanks Andrew!

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