Keyboard Maestro Can't Type Shift-CMD-F16?

[peternlewis]

@mattf

Yes, other keystrokes work fine. The same macro successfully does CMD-W and OPT-CMD-N. But those aren't directed at Mosaic. The Shift-CMD-F16 is a keystroke that gets types when Omnifocus is active, but Mosaic normally "intercepts" it and performs an action on the current window, which is an Omnifocus window. The keystroke works fine if I type it manually, but not if KM sends it.

OK, then it is not an accessibility issue.

Seems like it is probably this issue:

TIP: Resolving Catalina/Mojave Accessibility/Security Permissions Issues

Catalina (and Mojave really) Accessibility and Security Permissions UPDATED: 2020-02-05 @JMichaelTX noted that there are still people having troubles with Catalina and its accessibility issues. So lets make this clear - Keyboard Maestro itself has no known problems with Catalina or Mojave. However, Mojave and Catalina have two accessibility settings bugs which can cause problems trying to enable accessibility permissions for Keyboard Maestro and Keyboard Maestro Engine (which is required fo…

Catalina doesn't support triggering hot keys with simulated keys for function keys or arrow keys, but weirdly does allow it for other keys. Whether this is a bug or a “feature” is unknown. If you can change the target hot key to something other than an arrow or function key, then Keyboard Maestro can trigger it based on simulating the key.