Set Keystroke for Service from Terminal

Question

I created some services to be used in Finder. Now I wanted to create some keystrokes to call these services. That would be easy in the System Settings, however, I would like to add them from the command line in order to automate this setup.

I tried the following which did allow me not trigger the services by a keystroke:

defaults write com.apple.Finder NSUserKeyEquivalents '{ "label-red" = "$@1"; "label-green" = "$@2"; "label-none" = "$@0"; }'

Any ideas to make this work? Instead of com.apple.Finder I might have to use another identifier, but which?

Answer 1

The enabled services and shortcuts are stored in ~/Library/Preferences/pbs.plist. Some of the default shorcuts are stored in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ServicesMenu.Services.plist.

This prints the shortcut of an Automator service named test1 (there's no entry for it if it's enabled but doesn't have a shortcut):

/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'Print NSServicesStatus:"(null) - test1 - runWorkflowAsService":key_equivalent' ~/Library/Preferences/pbs.plist

This adds an entry (^~@t = ⌃⌥⌘T, see the Cocoa Text System article):

defaults write pbs NSServicesStatus -dict-add '"(null) - test2 - runWorkflowAsService"' '{key_equivalent = "^~@t";}'

To register the changes, run pbs -flush or log out and back in.

This enables a preinstalled service and assigns it a shortcut:

/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'Delete NSServicesStatus:"com.apple.systemuiserver - Open URL - openURL"' ~/Library/Preferences/pbs.plist; defaults write pbs NSServicesStatus -dict-add '"com.apple.systemuiserver - Open URL - openURL"' '{key_equivalent = "^~@u";}'; pbs -flush