inspired by a gnomon tutorial lately i also wanted to set up my own selection mask hotbox. since i work with maya with a gui completely turned off, the usual selection masks aren’t accessible from the status line any more, so i get them back by adding a marking menu within the hotbox. so i just browsed highend3d because i didn’t want to script my own menu and found a great script for my needs: selection masks 2.0.0. grab it, put the mel file in your marking menus prefs folder and start up the marking menu editor of maya. it will automatically ask you to load the new mel file and define center/ right mouse button to make it accessible when pressing space to reveal the hotbox.
if everything went right, you’ll have these nicely arranged selection options when pressing space and the right mouse click.