Middle stops working after closing laptop and re-opening

[matthaeusheer]

Hi

I have middle configured as follows

Often times when I close my laptop and login again, Middle doesn't work anymore. My feeling is that this does not happen every single time. But enough to be quite annoying. When I go into Middle -> About -> Debug -> Relaunch it works absolutely fine again.

Properties of my Mac

Best,
Matt

[rxhanson]

In that same debug menu (from the Middle menu bar menu, Help > About > Debug), there is an option to delay relaunch after wake. You can enable that to make it wait a little longer before restarting the app, and this should fix your issue.

In the event that you still have an issue, then you can extend this wait time a little longer with a terminal command.

defaults write com.knollsoft.Middle restartOnWakeDelay -float 10

The default value is 1 second, using the menu item sets it to 5, and 10 should be more than enough. The downside of a longer wait is of course having to wait longer for it to start working.

This is a workaround for a quirk in the event processing in macOS, and if you're experiencing it, then it's likely that you have another app that's causing this. One potential way to figure it out is to remove accessibility privileges for all other apps and checking as you add them back in.

[matthaeusheer]

I have the following config now. I feel like it got only worse. As of right now I canot make it work at all anymore (with or without the ticks). Also restart doesn't help. Tried to remove all the ticket things and still no success. :(
Also defaults write com.knollsoft.Middle restartOnWakeDelay -float 10 did not help.

[rxhanson]

The only thing that adding that delay does is make it take longer before the app restarts itself. Middle working less than before points to something external to Middle causing issues with the macOS event stream.

Do you have any other apps running that use accessibility privileges? If so, do you see different behavior when you quit those other apps?

When you have an issue, if you click on Show Viewer... in the debug menu, are there touches displayed?

[ChaseVsGodzilla]

@rxhanson I'm having the same issue as originally posted after upgrading to Sequoia, I've tried your fix but it doesn't seem to help. Any suggestions?

[rxhanson]

@ChaseVsGodzilla Thanks for letting me know. Are you seeing this with the trackpad or Magic Mouse, or both?

[ChaseVsGodzilla]

@rxhanson It seems to only be the magic mouse.

[rxhanson]

Thanks! I'll have a fix out soon.

[rxhanson]

@ChaseVsGodzilla Would you mind testing out this and letting me know if it fixes it? (I can't reproduce it myself so I don't have a good way to know)

https://middleclick.app/downloads/Middle1.8.7.dmg

[ChaseVsGodzilla]

@rxhanson Seems like that helped thanks so much :)

[feldman22]

Hey! I'm having the same issue with version 1.9

[rxhanson]

@feldman22 Have you tried the recommendations in #69 (comment) above?

[feldman22]

@feldman22 Have you tried the recommendations in #69 (comment) above?

Sorry, I missed that reply. I’ll give it a try and reach out again if it doesn’t work. Thanks!