I have a new M1 MacBook Pro and can't get any of my Macros to work using the keyboard hotkeys. They work if I click 'Try'...but not if triggered by their hotkeys - I just get a 'beep'!
I have restarted everything and given KM all the permissions in accessibility and Full Disk Access.
I would be really grateful for any suggestions on how I might fix this?
Thank you
hello
January 3, 2021, 6:37pm
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any app in particular? or none of the macros work, no matter what app?
tried toggling the permissions On and Off?
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…
Thank you. It is all apps and I have tried the toggling on and off and that hasn't worked.
If Keyboard Maestro cannot see keystrokes, the options are basically:
Things to try include:
Restart.
The Interactive Help (in the Help menu).
Things covered in those documents listed about.
There are no current bug reports particular to Apple Silicon / M1.
Thank you.
I spent 24 hours playing with the secure input and quitting 1 Password/Text Expander etc and reinstalling and toggling the permissions and then it just worked. Hurray.
Thank you for taking the time to reply.
This is a good tool to keep around for just these types of hiccups:
@Onan , thanks for sharing your enhancements to this process/macro.
You did all the hard work, but I have a minor enhancement to improve the output. This gives you a more visible notice of results, whether Secure Input has been enabled, or not.
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It's just a minor change to your last Action, so, I'll just post my changes:
Note that the below is an upload of my ACTIONS, not the entire MACRO.
After you download it, open Onan's macro, click on the last Action, and then select File > Imp…