Hide Desktop Pallet, Not Menu Bar?

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Hey Fred,

No idea what you're talking about – but then again it's been almost 20 years since I had a first install of Keyboard Maestro.

Please post a screenshot of the desktop palette and the menu you're having issues with.

Hazarding a guess...

You very possibly have the applications palette enabled in Keyboard Maestro's general preference panel.

The menu item should be a macro group with specific settings.

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Look through the Keyboard Maestro Editor to get an idea of what's there.

  • Take your time.
  • Learn the terminology.
  • Look through the preferences.
  • Look through all the menus carefully.
    • You won't remember everything but you'll begin to build your mind map of Keyboard Maestro.
  • Look through the Actions Panel (Cmd-K), and familiarize yourself with all the categories.
  • Use the help
    • Option-Key in menus.
    • Help link in dialogs.
  • Use the search field in the Help Menu.
  • Use the Insert By Name functions in the Edit menu – actions, tokens, functions, variables, and dates.
  • Don't spend more than 30 minutes banging your head against a problem.
    • The world has enough dain brammage already.
    • Search the forum.
      • If you don't find answers pretty quickly then ask.

When I first started using Keyboard Maestro in 2004 (?) I turned off ALL the macros that came with it.

I then looked through all of them for things I thought would be useful and experimented with them.

I ended up with a small starter set of macros that were useful to me, and I used them and the ones I had disabled as tools to learn how Keyboard Maestro ticked.

FYI

When posting macros to the Keyboard Maestro forum please use these guidelines:

  1. Always Post a Macro File.

    • This means people won't have to reinvent the wheel to test your macro, and that significantly improves the likelihood that someone will help you.

  2. Always Post a Macro Image.

    • Folks generally won't download something they haven't eyeballed first, so an image of the macro is crucial.

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Take Care,
Chris

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