skhd: Skhd is not working with MacOS Ventura 13.4

Skhd stop working in my OS. I’ve been countless hours trying to solve it because skhd makes me much more productive, and I couldn’t. Clarification: I disabled security integrity protection, I disabled secure keyboard entry, I rebooted my pc

My first error is: skhd: successfully created pid-file.

skhd is not running twice and I have writing permissions: as recommended in #74 and #243
This file ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.<something>.skhd.plist is the same as recommended here #126

Codesigning

I proceded with the codesign as @koekeishiya recommends in #253 with this link
My steps:

brew uninstall koekeishiya/formulae/skhd
I eliminated skhd from settings>privacy and security> accessibility
Reboot
brew install koekeishiya/formulae/skhd --HEAD
Codesign (the actual directory and not the symlink)
Configure scripting
skhd --start-service
I authorize access in settings>privacy and security> accessibility

I get this error: skhd: successfully created pid-file.. skhd: must be run with accessibility access! abort..
So, it creates the pid-file but it doesn’t enable the access of skhd (even though my box is checked in accessibility!)
any ideas about how can I solve this?

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Skhd is working on my OS. However, if I run skhd -V I still get skhd: could not lock pid-file! abort..

Here are some of the issues that I fixed to get it working:

I delete this line <my_keymap> : yabai -m display --focus west. With this line skhd doesn’t work.
It seems that Ventura 13.4 sometimes automatically enables “ApplePressAndHOldEnabled” in the OS, and therefore “Security entry keyboard” in iterm2 (in the menu bar>iterm2 it appears a - and it cannot be deselected). I took this steps:

In the terminal run defaults read -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled. If the output is 1, it means that the security entry keyboard is enabled (You’ll see the - in menubar>iterm2
Run defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true
Run again defaults read -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled, now the output should be 0
Kill the session by doing either pkill -u <username> (less aggressive) or sudo pkill -9 -u <username>
After login again skhd should be working. You can check that the output is still 0 when you run defaults read -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled, and in menubar>iterm2 “Security entry keyboard” won’t have a tick or a dash

ruperlopez on Jul 8, 2023