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Comment by alin23

4 days ago

Thank you! Yes, macOS 27 continues to be a pain with the all new rewritten window manager.

Still working on finding all the edge cases, so sorry if you still encounter problems there. I've been using it since June and still find problems in input handling.

Like there's this thing, where if an app has Accessibility Permissions and listens to key events (like rcmd does) and then you revoke that permission while the app is running, then your whole system will stop responding to keys and clicks. Until you kill the app in question, but how are you going to do that without a keyboard?

All apps have this problem, even established ones like BTT, because it's a recently introduced macOS behavior in how the internals of CGEventTap work.

Yeah, I thought so -- I imagine quite a lot has changed behind the scenes. It does seem much better than Tahoe, though.

Yikes, that accessibility bug is bad LOL. It seems a bit like Linux in that way: certain bugs hang around for years. I always found that with Linux, you could either use an LTS and stick with the same bugs for years, or try your luck with a rolling release and trade them for new ones. Anyway...

I've just started leaning more heavily on the window switcher (moved it to Lcmd) and it's made me so much faster. Had rcmd for ages but never changed it to that; it solves the problem of "where the hell did I put that window?!" when I try to organize stuff into different spaces. It's a better candidate for Lcmd too IMO: I very rarely wonder where I put a random window of an app (and after all, if it's already open I usually want to choose a window), but I'm always switching between certain windows of one app, like Safari. Swiping back and forth between desktops was a nightmare!