Open at login and start hidden
In Speechy's Settings, General, switch on Open at Login and Speechy starts with your Mac. Add Start hidden and it opens in the background, ready for your shortcut, and choose whether it shows in the menu bar, the Dock or both.
How to use Open at login and start hidden
Open General
It's the first page in Settings.
Switch on Open at Login
Speechy starts each time you log in.
Start hidden
It opens in the background, without the window.
What you do, what you get
Settings
You do
“Switch on Open at Login and Start hidden.”
You get
After a restart, Speechy is running and Fn works, with no window in your way.
Settings
You do
“Switch off Show in Dock.”
You get
Speechy lives only in the menu bar.
Choose how it starts.
In Speechy, Settings, General.
- Open at LoginStart Speechy when you log inOnOff
- Start hiddenOpen in the background, without the windowOnOff
- Show in Menu BarThe waveform icon and its menuOnOff
- Show in DockSpeechy's icon in the DockOnOff
Questions
No. First-time setup still shows. After that, launching opens no window.
Speechy keeps the menu bar icon whenever the Dock icon is off, so you can always reach it.
macOS sometimes asks you to allow login items. The row tells you when, and you approve it in System Settings.
