When you add a keyboard shortcut and list it for a particular application, the key binding only applies when that application is active. Thus, if you made Control-Shift-Z a shortcut for Zoom and applied that to Safari, that would mean that in Safari, and only in Safari, pressing Control-Shift-Z would zoom (i.e. Same as clicking the the green button in the upper left hand corner of the window). Binding keyboard shortcuts to particular applications usually makes sense because each application has its own set of menu commands. In your particular case, creating a key binding to launch System Preferences and binding it to System Preferences is guaranteed to never do what you want, because the only time it would launch System Preferences would be when System Preferences is already the active application. The fix is to insert System Preferences.

The list of services is located on the right side of the window.Image:Set a Keyboard Shortcut to Open Mac Apps Step 26.jpg 7 Click on your service to select it. We aim to cover the whole of macOS/Mac OS X System Preferences in this. The Dashboard app icon or use a keyboard shortcut - F12 by default - to activate it. Input Sources tab within the.

(with three periods, not an ellipse) as a shortcut in the All Applications section.