Open context menu of a Dock icon

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#1

This doesn’t work:

tell application "System Events" to tell process "Dock"
	key down control
	click UI element "System Preferences" of list 1
	key up control
end tell

I thought about just assigning the script a shortcut that uses ⌃ as a modifier, but the click command seems to ignore modifier keys held down by the user.

#2

Hi,

try this


tell application "System Events" to tell process "Dock"
	perform action "AXShowMenu" of UI element "System Preferences" of list 1
end tell