'w' doesn't work anymore in Catalina MacOS 10.15

[mandrigin]

'w' doesn't work anymore in Catalina MacOS 10.15

experiencing the same issue on 10.15.3 (19D76)

[mandrigin]

@gbstan hey! I’ve recently upgraded myself and facing the same issue. Right now I’m traveling too much to give it enough attention, but I’ll try to debug it asap (maybe in a week or two).

[fow5040]

Yep - let me fork really quick

[mandrigin]

Thanks a lot for your help!

[mandrigin]

@ubuntudroid whoops, it didn't upload the first time. fixed now, thanks!

[gbstan]

Launching the core EnumWindows program in the terminal from the workflow folder gives the following:

./EnumWindows --search="Finder"
<items></items>

i.e. other programmes don't return anything for some reason on Catalina

[gbstan]

I have checked and Alfred is added to Accessibility settings too.

[mandrigin]

@gbstan thanks for your investigation! Unfortunately, I don’t have Catalina right now (can’t install it because it will break some of the software I use for work). I might have access to it early next year and I will try to debug the stuff.

What if you try to add the EnumWindows itself to the accessibility settings?

[gbstan]

Hi @mandrigin: That's a good suggestion. I have tried it but unfortunately it didn't work. Same output in the debugger as well, i.e. only the safari tabs but no other window from any other programme.

[zihaojiang]

I have the same problem. Catalina MacOS 10.15

[gbstan]

Hi @mandrigin, is there a way I can help? This is one of my most used workflows and I would love to have it working again on Catalina.

[gbstan]

Amazing!

[fow5040]

Hi guys - recently started using this Workflow (solid work, btw!) and non-tab window switching doesn't work for me!

Digging a little closer, it seems like 'kCGWindowName' always returns 'nil' on Catalina 10.15.3 - googling finds other devs running into the same issue. The code that accesses this property is in EnumWindows/Windows.swift.

I've only been playing with this for a while, but it looks like we could either:

• Reference 'kCGWindowOwnerName' instead of 'kCGWindowName' for the Process name
• Haven't tested yet, but perhaps there are other ways to explicitly access the window name [similar issue]

I've been able to get the app half working by referencing wi.appName instead of wi.name, but then the Alfred result title isn't as appealing any more.

EDIT: Changing this to kCGWindowOwnerName fixed it for me, though that may be the naive solution

[mandrigin]

@fow5040 great findings! can you show the code? (feel free to open a PR here)

[fow5040]

Submitted!

[mandrigin]

let me take a look

[mandrigin]

looks good, let me test it quickly and release

[mandrigin]

@fow5040 https://github.com/mandrigin/AlfredSwitchWindows/releases/tag/0.3.2

[fow5040]

Happy to help!

[gbstan]

I have just installed the latest version (0.3.3) but it still doesn't seem to work.
I have allowed the EnumWindow to work (via the Security & Privacy -> General when it appeared there) too.

Am I missing something?

[gbstan]

It works by typing the name of the app. Then I see a list of all the windows for this app. Unfortunately, the name of each window/tab is the same for all items of this list making it impossible to know which one corresponds to what (contrary to what was possible before when you could literally just search for strings in the titles of the windows/tabs without even knowing which apps they were belonging to/open with)

[mandrigin]

@gbstan I think I found a way to fix it better.

[gbstan]

Thank you! Let me know if I can help with testing.

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[mandrigin]

@gbstan https://github.com/mandrigin/AlfredSwitchWindows/releases/tag/0.3.4

note that Alfred should be allowed to record screen (Catalina will ask on the first 'w')

[mandrigin]

updated the readme too

[mandrigin]

work for me on 10.15.3

[ubuntudroid]

@mandrigin Looks like the latest release does not contain a workflow asset. Is it built and added asynchronously?

[gbstan]

Yes, it is working now.
Thank you!