ಠ_ಠ Keyboard Button

The other day I was looking at keyboard stuff and decided to order some arrow keycaps for my keyboard. They also had one with the look of disapproval face on it, so I bought that too.

I popped it onto my Print Screen key, which maps to F13 in OS X, then I wrote an Automator service to copy/paste ಠ_ಠ when F13 was pressed.

on run {input, parameters}
	set the clipboard to "ಠ_ಠ"
	tell application "System Events"
		key code 9 using {command down}
	end tell
end run

I have never written AppleScript before, so the result was kind of wonky. It worked in some inputs, but not in others.

Then, Alex pointed out that Alfred workflows can be triggered by global hotkeys. What can't Alfred do?

A quick workflow later and my ಠ_ಠ key was working like a dream.

You can grab the workflow here, if you want. I bet you could figure it out for yourself too though.