jvthomas90
commented
1 month ago FYI I can easily work around this by temporarily revealing the dock (default keyboard shortcut is ⌥⌘D – or I guess you can use the mouse too ~like a muggle~ to take your time and hover over the dock separators to click the context menu item, or dig around in System Settings and switch off autohide there, etc etc) and only then interact with the Spaces Renamer window before toggling the dock off again
...but this obviously isn't a solution to the underlying problem. I'm just letting you know that this doesn't cripple the UX, it just hampers it a little, until a more seamless fix is patched in anyway.
Also, I figured this workaround might be useful info for any others that may have run into this problem before and find their way to reading this issue :)
dado3212
Describe the bug
It seems that whenever the dock is hidden, invoking the Spaces Renamer status-bar menu causes a weird effect that I can only describe as "flickering". This isn't just an odd visual artifact of the UI but it functionally affects UX as well since I'm unable to modify anything in the input fields.
To be clear, the text box does get highlighted momentarily and the contents of that Space are selected (or if it's a new/unnamed Space, I can confirm from zooming in that the cursor is indeed placed there in the empty input field for text entry) ...for just a brief moment, and then focus is suddenly lost.
At the same time, if the desktop is visible + you have enough icons that it forms at least one complete vertical column, the icon of the bottom-most row gets translated over to the top-most row of the adjacent column... and then it shifts back to it's original position, over and over again.
This animation is indicative of when the dock gets hidden by macOS and the desktop adjusts the density of it's contents accordingly (assuming you use the "Stacks" feature to automatically collate content by attributes like date or kind etc –– if you don't use this OS-provided self-sorting snap-to-grid config for your desktop I can only assume that you enjoy the clutter ~cuz you're an agent of chaos that revels in complete anarchy and utter disorder~ 😅 ) but the weird thing is the dock itself doesn't actually pop up on the screen. Or if it does, it's so quick before it's cyclically disabled and re-enabled again that it isn't discernable to the naked eye and thus the "dance of the desktop icons" becomes indistinguishable from a visual glitch that seemingly persists only so long as the Spaces Renamer window is invoked (which still remains impervious to edits or inputs while in this "flickering" state)
So yeah, that's my best guess / the steps to reproduce this bug: if the dock is hidden prior to invoking the Spaces Renamer menu-bar app, input focus is abruptly lost since the "flickering desktop / dance of the icons" glitch occurs (my observation) because (this is my assumption) macOS is rapidly un/hiding the dock on a loop for some strange reason (even if the dock-reveal animation-speed can't keep up and it isn't apparent, I'm fairly certain this is what's happening behind-the-scenes and causing the "desktop flicker" bug that forcibly arrests focus from Spaces Renamer's input window).
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.app)Command Outputs
Please paste the output of running these commands in Terminal:
ps aux | grep -v grep | grep -i macforgeps aux | grep -v grep | grep -i spacesrenamercsrutil status