Typing in KM is slooooooooow - how to diagnose issue?

[Lloydi]

OK, so I have a feeling what may be causing this, but first let me explain the symptoms:

When typing/editing text inside KM, from typing/editing a macro name to editing text inside a macro, for example a simple 'display text' macro, the responsiveness is HORRIBLE and error-prone. Letters are missed, delays are really bad.

It was not always like this though, and please bear in mind I am using this on an M2 Macbook Air with 24gb RAM. It's not short of resources. I get similar results on an M1 iMac.

What I think might be happening: I have a lot of typed string macros (for work I reference a lot of W3C documents that I have shortcuts for - around 900). I was wondering whether having so many of these was causing it issues? I have temporarily disabled them, but still having responsiveness issues.

Is there any way that I can diagnose what is causing this issue? Any likely culprits I should hunt down?

[tiffle]

I generally don't use typed string triggers but I too was having performance problems and this is what I came up with:

One Simple KM 10 Setting That Can Improve Performance

Up until recently, I've been experiencing severe slow-downs and even prolonged non-responsiveness of the KM editor. This was especially noticeable after just running the KM app. What I found was the following setting was the cause - Evaluate Condition Results. Here is how it looked on my system: [KM 0 2022-01-19_16-20-09] All I did was uncheck this setting and I've had no further sluggish/non-responsive behaviour. By way of explanation, this setting determines whether or not KM proactively w…

Of course, this might be totally irrelevant for your situation but you might want to have a look.

[cdthomer]

Make sure you don’t have any other Editor windows open at the time... especially if the second Editor window is open to the same macro you’re currently modifying. Anytime I run into that same sluggishness you’re describing, it’s because I opened another editor window and forgot about it, and it’s almost always open to the same macro which means KM has to update two windows in real-time.

[Lloydi]

@cdthomer

Make sure you don’t have any other Editor windows open at the time

Ah, easy one there - not this, as I never have multiple windows open. But thanks for the suggestion.

[Lloydi]

@tiffle

I generally don't use typed string triggers but I too was having performance problems and this is what I came up with:

Alas, that 'Evaluate' menu item was already unchecked, so can't try that one.

[ComplexPoint]

FWIW I seemed to notice a real speed-up in some aspects of GUI (picking a character for a macro icon, for example) after running this at the shell prompt in Terminal.app:

defaults write com.stairways.keyboardmaestro.editor DisableAnimation -bool YES