The calculator app has a useful percentage function, however one isn't present on the right hand keypad of the Magic Keyboard. I'd like to assign F19 to be a percentage function but am not sure how to do so. Any ideas please? Thanks, Rob
MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 14.0
I had only tried this with Mail and Safari, and in those applications it is working.
I now tried this with Calculator and it does not work.
I does work if I run the shortcut directly from Shortcuts (I have to add a command to bring Calculator to the front in this case, that's normal).
This tells me that the problem is not the script itself, but that Calculator may be intercepting the keyboard presses somehow, so the shortcut simply does not get to run. The beep we hear is Calculator grabbing the F19 key and saying "it's invalid".
I was able to do this in a somewhat roundabout way, but it seems to work!
I made a shortcut using the Shortcuts application:
I assigned it fn-F12 because there is no F19 key in my MBP and I do not have "Use F1, F2 etc as standard function keys".
It works, but I had first to go to System Settings->Privacy & Security->Accessibility and add Shortcuts to the list of applications that are "allowed to control your computer". Also, you will have to add Calculator to that list.
%%%%%%%% typed using this method :-)
Hi Luis, Thanks for the quick reply and the workaround. I've replicated your settings and set the accessibility as you said, but it isn't working for me. Is there something I'm missing?
ok. thanks for trying anyway. 👍
How to assign a percentage key to the Magic Keyboard's numeric keypad?
