keycastr: "Catastrophic Error Encountered" dialog gets in the way of Input Monitoring permissions dialog
I’ve used homebrew (v2.2.11; core revision 26e1, cask revision 07e7f1) to install the most recent version of KeyCastr (v0.9.8). I’m running macOS 10.15.3 on a 2019 15-inch 8-core MacBook Pro.
However, when I open KeyCastr I get a pop-up that says Catastrophic Error Encountered (first screenshot below).
I’ve tried uninstalling via homebrew + removing from SysPrefs>Privacy>Accessibility before reinstalling and reopening, but I get the same message. I’ve tried removing from Accessibility and readding, but get the same message. In both cases, KeyCastr has had Accessibility access (it has a blue check mark), despite error message (first screenshot).
I can’t seem to add it to Input Monitoring (see second screenshot), because there is no + option.
The recommendation from 2shortplanks in #89 did not work (dragging and dropping KeyCastr.app from /Applications into SysPrefs>Privacy>Accessibility. /Applications is where I can see the app being removed and added by homebrew via an open Finder window. Also, mac won’t let me drag app into SysPrefs>Privacy>InputMonitoring.
Any ideas on how to fix? Thanks in advance!
About this issue
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- State: closed
- Created 4 years ago
- Comments: 19 (3 by maintainers)
FWIW, adding KeyCastr to
Input Monitoringseems to work.Having this issue under macOS 10.15.4. No matter how (or how many times) I grant KeyCastr access to Accessibility, it still gives the error. This happens regardless of whether I install the Homebrew cask, or download the zipped app bundle from GitHub.
Without changing anything except restarting my computer at some point in the last week, this seems to be resolved for me. Must be that a restart after installing is necessary right now for this app.
If this turns out to be the solution, would probably be good to suggest it somewhere in the app / on that error screen / after install. I hardly restart / shut down my mac.