It looks like I’m the one that doesn’ t understand. 
I tried to looking at the instructions Here however, got completely lost. All I want to do is press hotkeys on my keyboard (for example “Ctrl+Alt+L”)… and have EventGhost toggle ON/OFF a Smarthings light. That’s what I ultimately want to do.
If you wouldn’t mind please posting the exact steps necessary to have EventGhost listen for a “Ctrl+Alt+L” keypress… then, EventGhost responding by sending a respective command to the SmartThings controller to toggle ON/OFF “Light1”, for example. If you could please make the steps as dummy proof as possible, I’d really appreciate it.
BTW: I use EventGhost for a completely different purpose currently, my EventGhost listens for web POST commands (using EventGhost’s webserver) …then sends IR signals to my IR-devices like my portable AC. Those web POST commands are trigged by IFTTT’s Cortana service… such as, “Set Temperature to 70 degrees” or “turn on my PC” or “Shutdown PC”.
Anyway, thank you for being so patient with me.