Hi, I'm trialling KM, and trying to set up some hotkeys for "Previous", "Pause" and "Next".
My current keyboard has built-in buttons for these, and they'll e.g. pause whatever is playing; Spotify, Youtube, etc. Doesn't matter.
I've been trying to set that up through KM, but for some reason, when I apply the shortcut, it always opens Apple Music (which I don't use).
I've spent quite a bit of time now, searching, playing around with the config, etc, but can't seem to get it to work. Am I missing something?
The problem they'll probably run into is this: I don't think you can trap the media keys, because they activate when pressed, even when you're in the field to assign the key to send. And I don't think you can remap them anywhere first, i.e. so they don't trigger while you assign them.
But that may just be my non-Apple keyboard, so it's worth a shot to try.
Thanks! I've read through both pages, and it makes sense, however it's still not clear how to actually record the specific keystrokes for the actions that I need.
I've tried pressing the Pause button on both my external keyboard, and my laptop keyboard, but in both cases, it doesn't record the keystroke, it only records other keys.
Is there a guide somewhere on how to do this? This must be one of the most common usages of KM?
I'm currently looking at replacing my external keyboard, and the new keyboard doesn't have the media keys built it, so I need a way to record this on a new keyboard that doesn't have the buttons
The challenge is that those keys operate below the level of applications, so they can't see them to trap them, because the OS grabs and acts on them first.
Thanks, that works a charm, so easy, yet hard to find 