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KillerKeys is designed to make shortcuts available to you when and where you want them.
To effectively use KillerKeys, you will want to learn how to access KillerKeys quickly
and easily. To provide the most flexibility when working with KillerKeys, we’ve created
several ways to hide and show both the Master Palette as well as shortcuts for a particular
application. Starting with the Master Palette, there are
two views that are available, the standard view and the compact view. The compact view
is a convenient way to allow access to the search feature and to selecting profiles quickly.
Clicking on the square in the upper right corner of the Master Palette will toggle between
both views. Additionally, you can double click anywhere on the top bar to toggle back and
forth. There may be times that you want to hide the
Master Palette completely, and this is possible using two different methods: hiding to the
notifications area and using the docking feature. Let’s begin with the docking: simply drag
the Master Palette to either the left, right, or top edge of your screen and it will snap
to the screen edge. This docks the Master Palette to the edge of the screen, and you
will notice that a tab will appear with a minus on it: click the minus and the Master
Palette will disappear leaving just the tab visible from the side of the screen. The tab
now displays a plus symbol, and if you click it the Master Palette will restore to its
original size. Hiding to the notifications area is done by
clicking on the line in the upper right portion of the Master Palette. To restore the Master
Palette, you will go to the Notifications area and click on the KillerKeys icon.
If you like using the Notifications method, there’s a way to make it much more convenient:
click the Notifications button, then click Customize. Find KillerKeys in the list and
change the selection to “Show Icons & Notification” and click OK. You will notice that the KillerKeys
icon is now visible on the taskbar, and you can simply click on it to show and hide the
Master Palette. You will also notice that the color of the icon changes to orange when
the Master Palette is hidden and back to grey when it is visible on your desktop.
It should also be noted that the Master Palette maintains its position on screen – or its
hidden status – regardless of the application you’re in, while floating palettes screen
position is tied to the current application. Shortcut keys – whether they are within
the Master Palette or Floating Palettes – can be quickly shown and hidden using the show/hide
keystroke, which by default is control spacebar. If the Master Palette is visible, you will
notice that when you hide the application the status text area changes to red and indicates
that the application is hidden. When you hide an application, you are hiding
just that application, so when you switch to another application, those shortcuts may
be displayed. If there are several applications that you
would like to hide, you can also use the settings window to hide multiple applications. Simply
click on the eye icon in the applications list to change the application to hidden.
The eye icon will switch from a black icon to a grey icon indicating that it is hidden.