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@nurkamol nurkamol released this 28 Jul 23:51
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v0.9.4
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Replay-0.9.4.zip — unzip it and drag Replay.app to Applications.

macOS will refuse to open it the first time. Here is why, and what to do.

Replay has no Apple Developer ID yet, so macOS marks it as unverified and shows
"Apple could not verify Replay is free of malware" — offering only Move to
Trash or Cancel. That message is about a missing certificate, not about
anything found in the app. Every unsigned app gets it.

To open it:

  1. Try to open Replay once and dismiss the warning.
  2. Go to System Settings ▸ Privacy & Security, scroll down, click Open Anyway.
  3. Confirm. It opens normally from then on.

Or one line in a terminal, which does the same thing:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Replay.app

Right-click ▸ Open does not work. That bypass existed for years and Apple
removed it in macOS 15. It is still the advice in most projects' READMEs.

Or skip all of that

Homebrew compiles it on your machine, so it is never downloaded, never quarantined,
and opens with no warning at all:

brew tap nurkamol/tap
brew install nurkamol/tap/replay-app    # the application
brew install nurkamol/tap/replay        # the command-line reader

A signed, notarised disk image — no warnings, nothing to click through — appears
here the day there is a certificate. The workflow that builds it is already written.

Added

  • A screen to show them on. Settings ▸ Display ▸ Show on names which display the
    screensaver and ambient mode take. Replay follows the keyboard unless told otherwise, and a
    named screen that is unplugged falls back to the keyboard's without forgetting the choice.
  • Ambient mode can be left open while you work. On a screen other than the one Replay's
    window is on, it stops taking the keyboard and stops closing when you type — the second
    monitor the mode was always for. It never applies on the screen you are working in, because
    a display that covers your work and takes no keys is a trap rather than a feature.
  • Quiet hours. The idle drift can be kept to a span of the day. Spans that run through
    midnight work, which is the case the obvious implementation gets wrong.
  • Backups nobody has to remember. Settings ▸ Data writes the same full backup every day or
    every week into a folder you choose, atomically, keeping the eight most recent and removing
    only its own older ones. Off until a folder and a schedule are chosen; nothing leaves the Mac.
  • A note and a bookmark on the stretch you are in, from the menu bar — or ⇧⌘N from
    anywhere. The moment worth marking is the one you are in, and it passes while you are
    finding the session in a window.
  • Ambient mode can drift in on its own. The idle delay used to have one outcome — the
    screensaver — because that is the only thing the reference's timer raises
    (openAmbient("screensaver"), hard-coded). Settings ▸ Display now opens with an Auto-start
    section: which of the two displays the delay raises, then the delay itself. The default is
    the screensaver, so an existing install behaves exactly as it did.
  • What starts on its own leaves on its own. An ambient screen raised by the timer
    dismisses on any key, click or movement. One opened by hand still stays, which is the whole
    point of a display left on a second monitor — upstream says so in as many words, and this is
    the case that comment does not cover.

Fixed

  • "Theme: Light" left half the app dark. The appearance was applied by the main window and
    the menu bar panel and by nothing else, so Settings, What's New and the note panel followed
    the system instead of the setting. It is applied once now, where every window picks it up.
    Found by looking at the light-mode screenshots; every check in the suite passed throughout.
  • VoiceOver read an unlabelled image before every application name — three of them per
    session on the Timeline. Application icons are decoration beside a name that is always
    there, and are marked as such.
  • "Exit on mouse movement" had nothing to listen to. Neither full-screen window set
    acceptsMouseMovedEvents, and AppKit does not deliver .mouseMoved to a window that has not
    asked for it — so the monitor watching for it could never fire. The switch is off by default,
    which is why a setting that did nothing survived this long.

Changed

  • The line under "Auto-start when idle" now says which display it will raise. The screensaver's
    wording is still the reference's, read from the contract rather than restated.
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