Zoom the view / font_size?

[johnnyutahh]

Does Fastmate.app offer a means to Zoom (in and out) the view / font_size?

Thanks for making the app!

[joelekstrom]

Hi! It does not at the moment, sorry. I'm looking into if I can easily enable it!

[joelekstrom]

Fixed in v1.8.0, thanks for the request!

[johnnyutahh]

Fantastic, thank you @joelekstrom !

Unfortunately, I can't get v1.8.0 to open on my system, and I'm running macOS 10.14.6, so I can't try v1.8.1 either. :-/

Thanks in any case for driving this project, I do hope to be able to run the app someday.

[joelekstrom]

@johnnyutahh Sorry to hear that! Could you try the steps here to disable Gatekeeper for Fastmate? That should fix issues with launching the app: https://disable-gatekeeper.github.io/

[joelekstrom]

Actually - I notarised a 1.8.0 build, please try that instead:
Fastmate-1.8.0-notarised.zip

[johnnyutahh]

Much appreciated. I downloaded and ran the v1.8.0 per below, and it seems to have the same behavior as what I tried a few hours earlier: the app seems to "flash open" (or form what little I can see; some frame pops up for what seems like less than a tenth of a second) and then disappears.

I see no "Allow apps..." Fastmate stuff listed at the Security & Privacy settings pref, like I might otherwise expect.

@joelekstrom - I'm happy to try other things, too. I did not yet execute any method/steps/procedure from https://disable-gatekeeper.github.io.

Actually - I notarised a 1.8.0 build, please try that instead: Fastmate-1.8.0-notarised.zip

[jcsteele]

@johnnyutahh follow the instructions in the guide mentioned first if you could...this will rule out any gatekeeper issues firstly.

Disabling Gatekeeper for one application only

Using Finder
1. Open Finder and navigate to the Fastmate application you just downloaded.
2. Right-click the application and choose Open.
3. Click Cancel in the confirmation dialog that appears.
4. Right-click the application a second time and choose Open again.
5. Click Open in the confirmation dialog that appears.

You only have to do this for the first application start. You can start the application as usual afterwards.

[johnnyutahh]

I performed the following, a couple times (with the latest .zip download). Same problems. Including no reference in Security & Privacy system-setting pref window.

I can try generally-disabling Gatekeeper later (pls remind me if you can?). For now, I have a growing doubt this is a Gatekeeper-related problem.

On 2022-01-31 11:45 AM, Josh wrote:

Disabling Gatekeeper for one application only

Using Finder

1. Open Finder and navigate to the Fastmate application you just downloaded.
2. Right-click the application and choose Open.
3. Click Cancel in the confirmation dialog that appears.
4. Right-click the application a second time and choose Open again.
5. Click Open in the confirmation dialog that appears.

[jcsteele]

I would agree with your suspicions that this may be another issue. Where you running the Fastmail.app from? Downloads? Applications?

Here are the instructions for globally disabling gatekeeper - please remember to re-enable it after testing.

Disabling Gatekeeper permanently

Open a terminal by pressing Cmd + Space, enter “Terminal” and open the application.
Run the following command: sudo spctl --master-disable. Enter your administrator password when requested.
Gatekeeper is now disabled permanently.

[johnnyutahh]

Solved! Details below. Thanks @jcsteele for your diligent effort, much appreciated.

All the open cmds in the following session succeeded. Fastmate.app now runs on my macOS... and supports zooming! It's a beautiful thing.

I had been previously testing after installing in /Applications, fwiw. I ran one (previous) test in ~/Downloads, just to be thorough. The only time I got it working was after performing the steps below. I'm not 100% convinced something else did not change between the failures and the success below, but if something did change I did not track it (the change).

Question: is running (Fastmate.app) withGatekeeper=globally_disabled, then running again Gatekeeper=globally_enabled expected to succeed like this? If not, I'd like to invesigate further to see if there is/was possibly something else happening here.

$ sudo spctl --master-disable
$ sudo spctl --status
assessments disabled
$
$ open /Applications/Fastmate.app
$
$ cd /Applications
$ sudo mv Fastmate.app/ Fastmate-1.8.0.app
$ cd
$
$ open /Applications/Fastmate-1.8.0.app
$
$ sudo spctl --master-enable
$ sudo spctl --status
assessments enabled
$
$ open /Applications/Fastmate-1.8.0.app
$
$ ls -d /Applications/Fastmate-1.*
/Applications/Fastmate-1.7.0.app  /Applications/Fastmate-1.8.0.app
$
$ sw_vers
ProductName:	Mac OS X
ProductVersion:	10.14.6
BuildVersion:	18G9323
$
$ date
Mon Jan 31 13:18:10 CST 2022
$

[joelekstrom]

Well this is interesting, thanks for trying all this stuff. Yes, Gatekeeper enabled should work with the new notarised build so I was very surprised you saw the issue again with that. Was it the same exit code 9 thingy?