Replacing Apple's Function Keys Only for the Active App

[Joseki]

I have done this for many years and I'm quite happy with it:

How to Use Function Keys (aka Hardware Keys) as Triggers

I saw some people asking questions about this so I hope this will be useful. Function keys are mostly used to change some hardware settings: adjusting luminosity/sound etc…This is the « normal » behavior. Goal : Use the function keys to launch macros but only in RandomApplication. Keep their normal behavior everywhere else. Problem: Keyboard Maestro has no possibility to capture the hardware keypresses. Solution: disable hardware keys in system setting and recreate their function in Keyboar…

@peternlewis

For replacing the behaviour of hardware keys, you need to go lower than Keyboard Maestro,

@peternlewis : don't be too modest For replacing the behaviour of hardware keys, you need to use Keyboard Maestro.