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[Fred Weiner]

“Shown” meaning they’re listed in the Witch interface, or that the 
windows themselves are made visible?

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Meaning they're listed in the Witch interface.

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Like close them permanently? Do you normally have them docked to a 
screen edge or what?

What I meant to say was that if I deactivate shelf and clipboard in QS preferences, of course they do not show up in the Witch pane. Normally, I have clipboard docked to a screen edge. When I reactivate them in QS preferences, they show up in the Witch pane again.

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Do you have the Dock icon for QS enabled or hidden?

​Hidden.​ Thanks for looking into this.

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unable to use my quicksilver on Mac OS High Sierra

Bettina Devin <bettin...@gmail.com>: Oct 30 06:13PM -0700 I MISS MY OLD SHORTCUTS! Anyone out there able to help? For example: I used to do "Ctrl/Space fa" to get to my facebook page. I don't seem to be able to reprogram/train the updated Quicksilver with all my old shortcuts. My Mac tech tells me I should phrase it this way: " I want to create a short-cut w/o any modifier keys". Anyone walk me through the steps? Not sure if the new Mac OS supports this? Thanks in advance for your help!

"Rob McBroom" <mailin...@skurfer.com>: Oct 31 08:53AM -0400 On 30 Oct 2017, at 21:13, Bettina Devin wrote:   > Not > sure if the new Mac OS supports this? Thanks in advance for your > help!   That’s a simple enough request and should be no problem, even under High Sierra.   First, make sure you have the latest version of Quicksilver from https://qsapp.com/download.php.   Assuming this is a fresh installation and Quicksilver hasn’t been configured or learned any shortcuts from you…   First, you need to get the things you care about into Quicksilver. For something like a website, it’s usually as simple as going to Quicksilver’s preferences under Plugins and installing the one for your browser. (This should add your bookmarks in that browser to QS, so it will obviously only work if you’ve bookmarked the site at some point.)   Next, you need to teach it that “fa” means “Facebook”. If you hit Ctrl-Space and type “fa”, then scroll down until you see your Facebook bookmark, then hit Return, Quicksilver should learn you want to use that abbreviation for that bookmark. You should only have to do that once or twice before Facebook becomes the first result every time you type that abbreviation. (There are ways to speed up this process, but they usually aren’t necessary and this message is long enough as it is.)   -- Rob McBroom http://www.skurfer.com/

Etienne Samson <samson....@gmail.com>: Oct 31 05:34PM +0100 > Next, you need to teach it that “fa” means “Facebook”. If you hit Ctrl-Space and type “fa”, then scroll down until you see your Facebook bookmark, then hit Return, Quicksilver should learn you want to use that abbreviation for that bookmark.   Alternatively, you can also use the "Assign abbreviation" action to manually set what QS would recognize as the "canonical" abbreviation for something, which completely bypasses the learning process. So in that case, you would select your Facebook object in the first pane, find "Assign abbreviation" in the second pane, and type "fa" as text in the third pane. This beats having to scroll down a hundred of results in the 1st pane IMHO ;-).   Regards, Etienne Samson -- samson....@gmail.com

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Issue with Manytricks "Witch"

Fred Weiner <fw1...@gmail.com>: Oct 30 12:15PM -0700 Friends,   Some of you may be familiar with Witch task switcher from Manytricks. I've been using it for years; something has come up recently, after a recent upgrade and also since the latest QS upgrade. The Witch pane evoked by its key combination now shows Quicksilver "Clipboard" and "Shelf;" of course I have both of those activated in QS as I have all along. When I deactivate them the Witch pane no longer shows them, not surprising. There's a preference pane through Sys Prefs that allows one to include programs to be ignored by the switcher, and I have put /Applications/Quicksilver.app in that box, to no effect: the Witch pane when evoked still shows the two processes. The reason I'm writing to this group is to find out what I might put into that preference pane to let Witch know not to list Clipboard and Shelf. Maybe nothing would work but I thought I'd ask...   Fred Weiner

"Rob McBroom" <mailin...@skurfer.com>: Oct 31 08:38AM -0400 On 30 Oct 2017, at 15:15, Fred Weiner wrote:   > The Witch pane evoked by its key combination now shows Quicksilver > "Clipboard" and "Shelf;" of course I have both of those activated in > QS as I have all along.   “Shown” meaning they’re listed in the Witch interface, or that the windows themselves are made visible?   > When I deactivate them the Witch pane no longer shows them, not > surprising.   Like close them permanently? Do you normally have them docked to a screen edge or what?   > The reason I'm writing to this group is to find out what I might put > into that preference pane to let Witch know not to list Clipboard and > Shelf. Maybe nothing would work but I thought I'd ask...   Unless you use Abracadabra triggers, Quicksilver only runs one process and it sounds like you’ve listed it.   Do you have the Dock icon for QS enabled or hidden?   -- Rob McBroom http://www.skurfer.com/

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[Rob McBroom]

On 31 Oct 2017, at 16:30, Fred Weiner wrote:

What I meant to say was that if I deactivate shelf and clipboard in QS preferences, of course they do not show up in the Witch pane. Normally, I have clipboard docked to a screen edge. When I reactivate them in QS preferences, they show up in the Witch pane again.

My best guess is that Witch has gotten better at finding windows. Why it’s not respecting your “ignore” list, I can’t say.

My second best guess is that it has something to do with the new window manager in High Sierra, but I don’t know if you’re even running that yet.

In any case, nothing related to that has changed in Quicksilver recently. If you’re able to find an older version that doesn’t exhibit this behavior, let us know.