KM doesn't respond immediately upon system wake

Questions & Suggestions
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When I wake my M1 MacBook Air, it seems to take about 15 seconds for KM to 'kick in'. For example:

  1. Mac wakes
  2. I trigger a macro via hotkey - nothing happens immediately
  3. after 15 seconds or so, the macro will run

Interestingly, if I trigger multiple macros during this period, they'll all fire at once after the 15 second period. So, KM can clearly see what I'm trying to do... it just takes its time doing it.

Any idea why this is happening and what I can do to make KM more responsive on system wake?

2

Check Activity Monitor and see what is taking up CPU usage.
'/System/Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app'

3

Yes, KM possibly "responds" to your keys after 15 seconds, but it's quite possible (perhaps even likely) that the reason for the delay is the keystroke queue handler in macOS is not handing the key to KM for most of that 15 seconds. In that case, the problem is macOS, not KM. I'm not sure how to test this theory.

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4

Maybe by using another trigger... Wake Trigger in particular.

5

That's an interesting idea. It might turn out that the KM Engine receives that trigger a significant time before it receives keystroke triggers.