Deactivate Keyboard Maestro (Engine) temporarily

[LarryLayouter]

Hi @all,

as the title says: is there a way to deactivate Keyboard Maestro (Engine) temporarily?
I don’t mean to enable/disable each macro group but the whole enable/disable the whole KM’s functionality.

The question’s background: if I manage/admin another Mac via screensharing the KM shortcuts triggered by some F-keys on the main Mac block the use of shortcuts on F-Keys on the remote Mac.
Maybe there is another solution beside stopping the local Keyboard Maestro (Engine) temporarily …?

Thanks for any advice
LL

[peternlewis]

See:

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