How to track a keyboard shortcut?

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How to track a keyboard shortcut?

What I mean by this is that I will run into an app where the usual key command will not work. At this point, I am not able to use command/i for italic, it is grayed out in the menu. My thought is that I must have put in the same key combination at some time and it is interfering, but I don't know how to trace that. I looked at the shortcuts for this app but don't see it there. Is there some way to track there a keyboard input is going?

Thanks,

— Richard

Posted on Jul 16, 2021 9:37 AM

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BDAqua

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Jul 17, 2021 9:35 AM in response to Richard Pitcairn

I don't have MacJournal, but can you setup Ctrl+CMD+i for that App?

Doesn't seem taken...

Mac keyboard shortcuts - Apple Support

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BDAqua

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Jul 16, 2021 6:06 PM in response to Richard Pitcairn

Hi Richard,

Open Sys Prefs>Keyboard>Shortcuts, are other App Shortcuts listed?

If not in the affected Apps work though all the Menus to see what is using it.

Set your own///

Might try Karabiner...

https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/

You can also easily make custom keyboards with...

http://scripts.sil.org/ukelele

Thanks to Old Toad…

You can do what you want with Keyboard Maestro and a whole lot more .

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Answer 3

Jul 16, 2021 6:33 PM in response to BDAqua

Thanks. I already did the check with other apps and there was nothing. I have Keyboard Maestro so went in and set up an action that would format the text to italic. DId not work, get a message back that the menu item is disabled. Odd.

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Answer 4

Jul 17, 2021 9:58 AM in response to BDAqua

I could try but likely won't work. The message I get back using Keyboard Maestro attempt is that the command/i menu item in the program is "inactivated." So I don't think any key command can access it. The puzzle is how it got inactivated. Maybe just corruption.

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