On MacOS 14 Beta 2 when opened Maccy freezes and disables keyboard until force quit

[viktor-yunenko]

Firstly thank you for the awesome clipboard manager!

I'm creating this ticket mostly for other people's reference, since this beta has been quite popular. Understandably wouldn't expect it be fixed soon, given how unstable the beta is by itself.

Reproduction: triggering Maccy's shortcut or clicking on it in the Menu Bar stops most of the keys from working. Afterwards a restart or force quitting Maccy through Activity Monitor helps.

Versions:

• 14 Beta 2 (23A5276g), released on Jun 21st
• Maccy 0.26.4 from homebrew

[notcgi]

also unable to pin

[BSakura-Miku]

在MacOS 14 Beta 2、1 出现相同问题

[howardellacott]

I think this is a macOS bug as the same occurs with Little Snitch, Tailscale and Amphetamine

[p0deje]

I can reproduce the issue, but no idea how to fix it yet.

[xezrunner]

EDIT 2: The patch breaks searching when the search field is hidden.
I fixed the app hanging and crashing in #569.
However, at least during debugging, the clipboard contents don't appear to get recorded. I think that is unrelated - perhaps some clipboard API has changed with Sonoma Beta 2.
EDIT: I had the Turn off option enabled in Advanced. Copying works.

[xezrunner]

I can reproduce the issue, but no idea how to fix it yet.

Debugged it a bit, the crash appears to be linked to modifying the frame of the header NSView in the menubar panel in any way.
Seems to be an OS-side crash though, might even be specific to NSViews inside NSMenuItems. Should probably report this to Apple.

[philihub]

Thank you for working on this! Would there be the possibility for a quick fix for the basic functionality of Maccy so it is at least usable again despite some features not working?

[xezrunner]

Thank you for working on this! Would there be the possibility for a quick fix for the basic functionality of Maccy so it is at least usable again despite some features not working?

If you are relying on searching within Maccy, I suggest you wait until the next macOS Beta and/or until the Maccy developer releases an update fixing it.
Right now, it looks like searching by just typing after summoning Maccy is broken on Sonoma Beta 2.

If you still want the patch:
You can grab my fork and build the branch with the patch. If you don't have Xcode, here's a precompiled build:
Maccy.app.zip

No idea if updates will work when built with a different "team" setting in Xcode.

[philihub]

Thank you, @xezrunner! Will gladly take it 👍

[p0deje]

Thanks to @xezrunner who found the problem, I've pushed a fix in e119d2d that solves the crash. However, Maccy still cannot handle events so searching/pinning/etc doesn't work.

[xezrunner]

Thanks to @xezrunner who found the problem, I've pushed a fix in e119d2d that solves the crash. However, Maccy still cannot handle events so searching/pinning/etc doesn't work.

Glad I could help!
Interesting to see how changing the frame in a different function works - they probably moved some layout code around internally, so now Maccy changing the frame during an "awake" function is too early.

I've reported the issue to Apple through the Feedback Assistant regardless, perhaps this was an edge case they didn't think of.

I tried toying around with the event handling issue today as well, but any way I tried to handle events would just simply not work. Will keep looking though.

[p0deje]

I've released 0.26.5 which addresses the crash. Search/pinning/delete still don't work, but let's track the work in #555.

[xezrunner]

I've reported the issue to Apple through the Feedback Assistant regardless, perhaps this was an edge case they didn't think of.

[p0deje]

@xezrunner Any chance you could also report that InstallEventHandler doesn't call an event handler? The code is in

Maccy/Maccy/MenuHeader/MenuHeaderView.swift

Lines 58 to 79 in 5e8a8a7

	if let dispatcher = GetEventDispatcherTarget() {
	// Create pointer to our event processer.
	let eventProcessorPointer = UnsafeMutablePointer<Any>.allocate(capacity: 1)
	eventProcessorPointer.initialize(to: processInterceptedEventRef)
	let eventHandlerCallback: EventHandlerUPP = { _, eventRef, userData in
	guard let event = eventRef else { return noErr }
	guard let callbackPointer = userData else { return noErr }
	// Call our event processor from pointer.
	let eventProcessPointer = UnsafeMutablePointer<(EventRef) -> (Bool)>(OpaquePointer(callbackPointer))
	let eventProcessed = eventProcessPointer.pointee(event)
	if eventProcessed {
	return noErr
	} else {
	return OSStatus(Carbon.eventNotHandledErr)
	}
	}
	InstallEventHandler(dispatcher, eventHandlerCallback, 2, eventSpecs, eventProcessorPointer, &eventHandler)
	}