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| ==== Keyboard Maestro Engine ==== | ==== Keyboard Maestro Engine ==== | ||
| - | The Keyboard~~Maestro~~Engine is a background only application that enables all of Keyboard~~Maestro’s features. It responds to your Hot~~Key presses, watches the time, tracks applications and maintains your clipboard history, handles remote web, iPhone requests and receiving clipboards, and, of course, executes your Macro~~Actions. It should be running at all times, so we recommend you enable the “Launch Engine at Login” preference in the [[Windows#Preferences_General_Pane|General preference pane]]. | + | The Keyboard~~Maestro~~Engine is a background only application that enables all of Keyboard~~Maestro’s features. It responds to your Hot~~Key presses, watches the time, tracks applications and maintains your clipboard history, handles receiving clipboards, displays palettes, and, of course, executes your Macros. It should be running at all times, so we recommend you enable the “Launch Engine at Login” preference in the [[Windows#Preferences_General_Pane|General preference pane]]. |
| ==== Macro Groups ==== | ==== Macro Groups ==== | ||
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| ==== Actions ==== | ==== Actions ==== | ||
| - | When a Macro is Triggered it executes a list of [[Macro Actions|Actions]]. Keyboard~~Maestro performs each of the Actions in order. There are a wide variety of Actions allowing you to control applications, simulate user interface events like key presses, mouse clicks and menu selections, work with files or images, control your Mac or the clipboard, or display a variety of powerful switchers (Application, Window, Clipboard and Clipboard History Switchers). You can also execute a script (AppleScript, Java, Swift, shell Script or Automator Workflow) or even download or create your own custom plug in actions. You create Actions by creating or editing a Macro and clicking the BUTTON{{{+}}} button to display available actions, or by clicking on the Record button and performing the action while Keyboard~~Maestro records your actions to your Macro. | + | When a Macro is Triggered it executes a list of [[Macro Actions|Actions]]. Keyboard~~Maestro performs each of the Actions in order. There are a wide variety of Actions allowing you to control applications, simulate user interface events like key presses, mouse clicks and menu selections, work with files or images, control your Mac or the clipboard, or display a variety of powerful switchers (Application, Window, Clipboard and Clipboard History Switchers). You can also execute a script (AppleScript, Java, Swift, shell Script or Automator Workflow) or even download or create your own custom plug in actions. There are [[:Actions|many, many more actions]], so if you can do it yourself, Keyboard Maestro can probably do it for you. You create Actions by creating or editing a Macro and clicking the BUTTON{{{+}}} button to display available actions, or by clicking on the Record button and performing the action while Keyboard~~Maestro records your actions to your Macro. |
manual/Quick_Start.txt · Last modified: 2023/09/26 03:22 by peternlewis
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