When I start Dorico I get this palette:
How can I get rid of that?
You can check the Engine log (Help → Open Logs Folder) to find out what is triggering the palette.
I routinely tail the Engine log when I can’t figure out why something is happening:
tail -n 25 -F ~/Library/Logs/Keyboard\ Maestro/Engine.log | egrep -v "anything you want to filter out"
That part after the pipe is optional of course.
Hi devoy
I’m afraid I don’t quite understand your message. I open the engine log and there was only 1 entry from today and it had nothing to do with the palette in Dorico.
It sounds like you have either a macro or group that is set to open the palette on the software launch. You can try searching your All Macros smart group for t:Dorico palette for any macros triggered by Dorico launching with palette actions. I don't think there's a way to search groups at the setting level, so you might need to look at those individually if you don't find a macro that's opening the palette.
Did you first launch Dorico, get the palette, and then check the engine log? If so, then it might be worth checking that macro anway as it could be the one opening the palette. It's unusual, though, that the engine log would have so few entries unless your KM usage is extremely limited. Did you perhaps open the editor log by mistake?
You could try running the following AppleScript:
tell application "Keyboard Maestro"
select (every macro group whose xml contains "<string>ActiveAndAlwaysWithPalette</string>" and xml contains " <string>Dorico")
end tell
It may throw some false positives but it'll make it easier to find the problem Group -- just work through the ones selected in the Editor looking for "Available in these applications: Dorico" and "Always activated and shows a palette until".
Here's the above script wrapped in a KM macro:
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That is a Keyboard Maestro palette.
So first step is to determine what kind of palette it is.
If it is a Macro Group palette, then you’d have a macro group named “Keyboard Maestro” configured to be shown in Dorico. Option click on either of the macros to see what group they are in.
Alternatively, it could be a macro triggered by the activation/launch of Dorico that displays those macros. The Interactive Help (in the Help menu), Something unexpected is happening, could indicate which macro is being triggered.
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That’s probably overkill, assuming you have macros in that group that you’d like to use.
The settings as you show them are fine and won’t cause a palette to appear..on their own. (There are other ways to invoke a palette..but I figure if you knew how to mess with those then you wouldn’t have a problem in the first place. 
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If the problem went away when you disabled that group, and if the settings you showed are accurate, then I am guessing that you have two macros in that group named “Create new…” Is that right?
If so, and the palette is still showing up, try to disable just those two macros and see what happens. Please report back and we’ll get to the bottom of this.
