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felixhageloh
All widgets disappeared upon update today and the debug console won't open. Just me?
MacOS 10.15.7 Edit: Just noticed each widget must be set to background individually. That fixes it. Leaving this in case anyone else is confused.
Not just you! Same problems.
The commands are running, though; I have one of my widgets also run a simple command to update "AnyBar".
Edit: You edited as I replied. Appreciate the fix!
Not sure why I can't open the debug console though -- I thought it was available even if there weren't any errors. Maybe this was changed in the upgrade?
I had interaction disabled. Enabling it, quitting and restarting the app solved the issue.
It's a bug when interaction is disabled - it should work fine if it is enabled. Working on a fix!
The debug console works now, but I find 1.6.66 to still be unstable. When I first upgraded, all my widgets disappeared again, but I was able to jump-start them by setting one of the widgets to "show on all screens" and then setting it back to the main display again. Later, when one of my widgets threw an error while processing, it seems to have triggered all widgets to fail again. The same fix (make one widget show on all screens) got them running again. Now that there's a pattern, I will capture some screenshot video to show it in action next time. Thanks for the active development!
@felixhageloh Yes I am, but if I'm the only one, then it may be something environmental for me or something with my particular widget settings (I keep 21 of them running at a time). All my widgets keep disappearing throughout the day until I go to the menu and refresh them all. Then they reappear. I can't figure out what the trigger is. --That is, all the widgets except for one that plays a small .gif file on a loop. That one remains open, but the rest disappear. When I refresh, they all come back for a while.
I tried downloading and installing an older version of Üebersicht to see if that would help, but when I checked to see if it was successful, the version number remained unchanged and I was still on the latest version.
I don't want to hold things up if it's just me. I just can't figure out the issue. I'd be happy to send you some of my code if it would help, but that could be time-intensive.
Hello, I am having the same issue with my single widget disappearing throughout the day. I'm running on a MacBook Pro with a second screen. The second screen is the "main" screen and the widget is running on the MacBook pro screen. I have dock hiding turned on, if I reveal the dock in the MacBook pro screen, the widget instantly disappears and I have to hit "Refresh Widgets" for it to come back: https://youtu.be/XwO86eIzreQ
Let me know if I can provide any other info to help debug this. Thanks very much!
@seanrabey I'm running a MBP with a second screen as well. I'm not using the dock hiding feature, but the behavior you describe sounds similar to what I've seen. Seems like some kind of extended screen/finder refresh/screen refresh issue for both of us. What kind of widget is disappearing for you? Mine were anything running a shell command. The only one that persisted without issue was something with a simple gif running in a loop.
@fishcymbal, interesting, my widget is running a bunch of shell commands for display as well. It grabs the date and time, and some specs about my battery and temperatures for display. Here is the shell command, it runs every second:
command: "printf \"%.0f% \" $(/usr/local/bin/istats battery charge --value-only) && printf \"%.0fC<br>\" $(/usr/local/bin/istats cpu temp --value-only) && date +\"%Y-%m-%d <br>%a %b %d <br><span id='mainDate'>%l:%M:%S %p</span> <br>%H:%M:%S %Z<br>\" && date -u +\"%H:%M:%S UTC<br>\""
PS: if I "Enable Interaction" it stays, but then it doesn't clear when I use mission control show desktop. A small annoyance, but would be nice :)
@seanrabey Wow, that's nothing compared to all the commands I was running and it still fails for both of us. I had a ton of widgets calling scripts and grabbing text files, parsing them out with CoffeeScript and JavaScript, etc. So it doesn't seem like a matter of complexity, just that they're shell commands. I thought maybe I was trying to do too much. Interesting....
Also notable that the interaction function is a triggering issue. That's when my problems started as well, version 6.6.5 I think. I have interaction turned off and have never even looked into how to use it. Wonder if that would be a fix for me as well.
Sorry, I guess I'm being dense -- I don't follow what you're saying about mission control -- what doesn't clear?
@fishcymbal seems like it's definitely something to do with the shell commands. Yes, by enabling interactions, it no longer disappears. I like to use the mac missions control keyboard shortcut to "show desktop" and when the widget does not have interaction enabled and it's moved to the background, it moves out of the way when I use the "show desktop" keyboard shortcut. But with interaction enabled, it stays stuck in place and doesn't move off to the side like all the other app windows do :)
did you both check
- the debug console for any errors?
- the output of the widget command to see if it returns an error?
The fact that you mention that not all widgets have the same issue rules out an issue with the Übersicht window in general
Hi @felixhageloh
Yes, I've checked my debug console many times. I've turned off the widgets that cause errors and the remaining ones still disappear. And I understand your point that the inconsistent behavior might imply that there's no issue with the core program, but on the other hand these widgets persisted without an issue before 1.6.5 so it seems like something about the core functionality has led to the new behavior.
Don't get me wrong -- it's not a complaint and I appreciate the free software without an expectation of free support. Just trying to help troubleshoot.
Update: I finally caught them in the act of disappearing -- They had been running on the desktop for a couple minutes when I opened a processor/memory intensive program (in this case, Adobe Premiere Pro). Before the app's window could obscure the desktop, all but that one looping .gif disappeared. I have to refresh if I want the rest to come back, but I don't see any errors in the log.