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wavded
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4 years ago

Global keystroke captures being swallowed up by 1Password 8 Beta ?

I use Hammerspoon to capture keystrokes. It appears sometimes I loose the ability to capture key down events but I can resolve the issue by shutting down 1Password 8 completely. I'm assuming this app...
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wavded
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4 years ago

@chadseld I did some more testing. I can get it to fail always, even if 1P8 doesn't have focus.

From my testing I found a few interesting scenarios:

Secure input (a.k.a. Hammerspoon not able to capture key events) seems to happen whenever any input is in focus on the main 1P8 UI. This is fine and desirable.

Secure input does not seem to be enabled when using the Quick Access search box, which is interesting (bug possibly as it is enabled on the main UI search box?)

I can still get 1P8 to enable secure input all the time even if 1P8 isn't in focus. I found these steps seem to always reproduce the issue for me:

  1. Quit 1Password
  2. Open 1Password and Enter Master Password
  3. Close 1Password Window using ⌘-W
  4. Right click on menu bar icon and select Quick Access
  5. Close Quick Access menu using escape key
  6. Right click on menu bar icon and select Open 1Password

After this point I can no longer capture events even if 1Password is not in focus until I quit 1Password. Note, its weird, I have to use those specific ways of closing to reproduce. There probably are other ways, it seems the mix of quick access and the main 1password UI causes this state to happen.

If you need any other details let me know!