General
Startup, the menu bar glyph, on-screen messages and release updates.
The basics of how Switchboard sits on your Mac: whether it starts with you, whether it shows in the menu bar, and where its short messages show up.
What's here #
Startup has Open at login. If macOS wants your approval, a line under the switch says so and Open Login Items… takes you to System Settings.
Menu bar has Show Switchboard in the menu bar. The glyph shows whether the engine is running, paused or held by secure input.
On-screen messages has the HUD position, which is where the brief messages from macros appear. They never take focus and stack when several arrive. Say when held runs go shows one message with a count when the Mac can do what a held run was waiting for.
Updates has the Update channel choice: Stable for regular releases, Beta for early releases. An MDM-managed choice is shown with its reason and cannot be changed. Returning to Stable does not downgrade a beta already installed.
Tricks #
Turn the menu bar glyph off and Switchboard has no icon there. Turn it back on here.
Any Settings page has an address of the form
switchboard://settings/<id>, for exampleswitchboard://settings/general.