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Resolved Assigning app to F keys?

Loa

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Hello,

Just upgraded to a Mac Studio, and in the process upgraded from 10.13 to 12.3. I'm still trying to figure out stuff, but one thing has been bugging me. I'd been using an old app called Spark (not the email client) to allowed me to use the F-keys to launch apps. F1 was Safari for example.

Is there a way to do that in MacOS 12?

Thanks!

P.S. I'm not talking about assigning a menu item to a key, just launching the app.
 
Not natively. You could do it by building a custom keyboard shortcut using the Shortcuts app. But to be honest, I've found something even that simple to be a complete P.I.T.A. compared to just continuing to use Spark if it still work under the latest OS on an M1 Mac (I believe it does but could be wrong).
 
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I haven’t tested it in Monterey
“One Key allows you to use the function keys as hot keys to launch applications, run scripts or open files with a simple key press. It does this all without rendering the original commands of your function keys useless.”
https://everydaysoftware.net/onekey/
 
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Thanks for the suggestions. To my utter amazement, Spark still works on Monterey!
 
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