Remapping spacebar in Finder from windowed Quick Look to fullscreen ("slideshow")
In the Mac OS X Finder, Can I replace the standard option of a windowed preview (Quick Look) with a fullscreen view (Slideshow)?
Command + Option + Y = Fullscreen
Space = Windowed
Is there a way of making space perform the fullscreen mode instead?
It is not possible in Mac OS X itself, since Space does not actually activate a menu item, and the title of the menu item in the File menu changes with the name of the selected object(s).
You could learn to press Option-Space for fullscreen mode.
Alternatively, you can use hotkey/utility applications such as Butler or Keyboard Maestro for this, to intercept your key press and reroute it. The following steps are for Butler.
- Add a Smart Item » Keystrokes to Butler, and move it to the Hidden category.
- In the Keys tab, press
Cmd-Opt-Y(which is the regular Finder key combination for fullscreen/"slideshow" Quick Look. - In the Triggers tab, press Space as hotkey, and confirm the dialog questioning your sanity.
- As Exceptions, select Only, and enter "Finder" in the text box.
- Enjoy!
A significant downside to this sledge-hammer-solution: You cannot ever press space in Finder to have it mean something else. Renaming folders, searching in Spotlight: Space is not going to work.