Does not work on macOS Mojave

[stefandesu]

After installing macOS Mojave on my second machine, I noticed that SlowQuitApps stopped working. The overlay would show up shortly but then immediately stop. I had this happen on High Sierra occasionally as well, but restarting SlowQuitApps usually fixed it. On Mojave, the error occurs every time.

I checked out the repository and tried running it locally, and with a few NSLog statements I figured it where it fails. In SQACmdQStream.m on line 54, CGEventSourceKeyState(kCGEventSourceStateHIDSystemState, kVK_ANSI_Q); returns False even though the Q key is pressed. Apparently, it still recognized the first keypress of CMD + Q, but just not that the Q key is still pressed. If I change line 43 in the same file to const BOOL pressed = cmdPressed;, the app works again (but just doesn't recognize if you stop holding Q which is annoying).

Any ideas on how to fix this?

[dteoh]

I don't have Mojave yet.

You can try:

• changing from kCGEventSourceStateHIDSystemState to kCGEventSourceStateCombinedSessionState (docs)
• recompiling the app using the Mojave SDK

[stefandesu]

I think I did try the first one, but not the second one yet. Will try it later and report back!

[stefandesu]

Same issue when compiled with Xcode 10 beta. Also tried kCGEventSourceStateCombinedSessionState. Both CGEventSourceKeyState(kCGEventSourceStateHIDSystemState, kVK_ANSI_Q); and CGEventSourceKeyState(kCGEventSourceStateCombinedSessionState, kVK_ANSI_Q); return False. I also iterated through all key codes and only 55 (kVK_Command) returns True. Could this be a bug in Mojave?

[dteoh]

Thank you for investigating!

For now, it looks like a bug in Mojave.

[kikandychan]

solved
open MacOS system preference
then go to security/privacy
then click on privacy
scroll down to accessibility
then unlock
then add slowquitapps.app to the list
again, add the app to application data to allow this app access to application data

[stefandesu]

Awesome, that worked! And there's enough time to put that information into the app as a popup or something.

[dteoh]

Great! I will look into adding this information in an alert popup.

[dteoh]

Thank you both for investigating!

Version 0.4.1 asks for Accessibility permissions on launch.