Comments on: Quicksilver + YubNub: Rapid web searches and more

By: Simon Dorfman

Simon Dorfman — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:55:45 +0000

Oliver, thanks for your tip. While it didn’t exactly work for me, it did lead me to my own solution. I copied the Triggers.plist from my other Mac to this one. I believe I’ve isolated the appropriate part so others can use it: http://pastie.org/1117143

/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/YOUR USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Triggers.plist

The shortcut to use the trigger will now be Command-Escape. Make sure to disable Front Row from using that same trigger by going to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> Front Row -> uncheck “Hide and show Front Row”

By: Oliver Sumpton

Oliver Sumpton — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 06:40:39 +0000

Think I got a fix. I still have the original trigger I set up active on another system and I was just able to manually add the trigger by coping a pasting a chunk from the old sys's Triggers.plist

Try the following:

copy the code show from the following link...

http://pastie.org/932696

and paste it between any two dict tags

inside your Triggers.plist file

/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/YOUR USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/PlugIns.plist

By: Oliver Sumpton

Oliver Sumpton — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:46:40 +0000

same here. The URL value comes up null with the search trigger after restarting Quicksilver (10.6.3). Anyone have a fix?!? This is like loosing a limb :(

By: fritz

fritz — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:49:31 +0000

how bizarre – just as I wrote this comment, I added a custom web search entry with the url provided in the catalog – and now the trigger works, even if I restart it! great.

By: fritz

fritz — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:46:55 +0000

same here. Trigger won’t work on Snow Leopard – I came to rely so much on it on Leopard! bummer

By: Kudzu

Kudzu — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:30:56 +0000

Above comment didn't get published correctly. Use THREE stars instead of two in the end for the ‘Search an item’ field.

Correct URL "qss-http://www.yubnub.org/parser/parse?command=***"

By: Kudzu

Kudzu — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:29:08 +0000

Got this via trial and error. Use THREE '*' instead of two in the end for the 'Search an item' field: qss-http://www.yubnub.org/parser/parse?command=***

Also, make sure to check 'enable advanced features' in Preferences > Application.

By: iRock

iRock — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:02:29 +0000

Hi.

Same issue here. In Snow Leopard the trigger works fine, but if I restart QS, it stops working. I use Mac OS X v10.6.2 too.

If someone know how to solve this issue, please tell us.

By: PeiChecK

PeiChecK — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:01:30 +0000

same problem, the search for in the action tab doesnt exist, i have the web search module installed! please! help ;) thank you for posting this tricks.

By: Manuel

Manuel — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:21:19 +0000

Hi, I have Snow Leopard 10.6.2 and I have a similar problem. If I configure Yubnub as in the example, it works, but if I restart Quicksilver it stops working. When I look at the trigger, the text in “Search item” is not what I typed. I tried with the beta version of Quicksilver also and the behaviour is the same. Any idea on how to fix this?