TotalSpaces2 v2.5.4 on MacOS 10.11.2 - can't change space from overview grid

[bob8490]

Title; Overview grid shows up, but when I click on a space, it just highlights it; it won’t actually GO to that space. Pressing esc to exit the overview usually will take me to the space I selected. This also throws off my ‘swipe to change spaces’ sometimes - seems like parts of TotalSpaces know what desktop I’m on and other parts think I’m still on the last desktop.

This / these bugs didn’t show up until a few weeks after I installed TotalSpaces. I did not perform an upgrade from the time I installed to the time I started experiencing these issues. I did upgrade this morning, and the issues persist.

Any help is greatly appreciated, as this is interfering with my workflow now. Thank you in advance.

[stephen]

Does changing space using hotkeys work normally?

[bob8490]

The issue is intermittent and not present at the moment, but the hotkeys work right now. I don’t normally use them, so I can’t say with certainty.

[bob8490]

Just after I commented, issue returned. Hotkeys still working. Seems to only happen from the instant expose or overview grid.

[stephen]

I’m pretty sure this is a problem related to TotalSpaces not being able to set the front window correctly.

Is it possible for you to send me some logs so I can investigate?

Open Console.app (from Utilities), and type Dock into the search bar at the top.

Then enter the overview grid, try to change space. Then go back to console and copy-paste the logs from there. I’m hoping there will be a clue in those.

If there is nothing there, then you can try searching for TotalSpaces instead of Dock in Console.app.

[bob8490]

Done. This is a search for ‘Dock,’ immediately after a reboot. The issue was present at the time.:

8/24/17 7:54:00.973 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.dock.fullscreen) The HideUntilCheckIn property is an architectural performance issue. Please transition away from it.
8/24/17 7:54:00.973 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.dock.server) The HideUntilCheckIn property is an architectural performance issue. Please transition away from it.
8/24/17 7:54:00.973 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.dock.notificationcenter) The HideUntilCheckIn property is an architectural performance issue. Please transition away from it.
8/24/17 7:54:00.973 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.dock.appstore) The HideUntilCheckIn property is an architectural performance issue. Please transition away from it.
8/24/17 7:54:00.973 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.dock.remotedesktoppicture) The HideUntilCheckIn property is an architectural performance issue. Please transition away from it.
8/24/17 7:54:00.973 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.dock.launchpad) The HideUntilCheckIn property is an architectural performance issue. Please transition away from it.
8/24/17 7:54:00.974 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.dock.downloads) The HideUntilCheckIn property is an architectural performance issue. Please transition away from it.
8/24/17 7:54:00.985 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.dockextra.server) The HideUntilCheckIn property is an architectural performance issue. Please transition away from it.
8/24/17 7:54:00.985 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.dockling.server) The HideUntilCheckIn property is an architectural performance issue. Please transition away from it.
8/24/17 7:54:05.407 AM TotalSpaces2[304]: Monitoring Dock 236
8/24/17 7:54:05.413 AM Dock[236]: [TotalSpaces] TotalSpacesInjector v2.0.2 received init event
8/24/17 7:54:05.470 AM Dock[236]: [TotalSpaces] Loaded bundle from path: /Applications/TotalSpaces2.app/Contents/Resources/TotalSpaces.bundle
8/24/17 7:54:05.470 AM Dock[236]: [TotalSpaces] TotalSpacesInjector: Installing TotalSpaces …
8/24/17 7:54:05.470 AM Dock[236]: [TotalSpaces] FastSwitch2 © 2011-2016 Switchstep in association with BinaryAge
8/24/17 7:54:05.470 AM Dock[236]: [TotalSpaces] FastSwitch2 is being initialized
8/24/17 7:54:05.471 AM Dock[236]: [TotalSpaces] El Capitan detected
8/24/17 7:54:05.474 AM Dock[236]: [TotalSpaces] FastSwitch2 ready v2.5.4
8/24/17 7:54:05.507 AM Dock[236]: [TotalSpaces] Loaded bundle from path: /Applications/TotalSpaces2.app/Contents/Resources/GridZoom.bundle
8/24/17 7:54:06.408 AM TotalSpaces2[304]: Connecting Dock, backoff: 1
8/24/17 7:54:06.409 AM TotalSpaces2[304]: Dock connected
8/24/17 7:56:56.488 AM Dock[236]: Unexpected show on main thread
8/24/17 7:57:08.871 AM Dock[236]: Unexpected show on main thread

This is a search for ‘TotalSpaces’:

8/24/17 7:54:02.285 AM TotalSpaces2[304]: osaxSystemPathMode
8/24/17 7:54:02.285 AM TotalSpaces2[304]: Detected injector version 2.0.2
8/24/17 7:54:02.285 AM TotalSpaces2[304]: TotalSpaces2.app is carrying injector version 2.0.2
8/24/17 7:54:05.000 AM kernel[0]: CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page(0x10521a000): p=392[TotalSpacesCrash] final status 0x0, allowing (remove VALID) page
8/24/17 7:54:05.329 AM TotalSpacesCrashWatcher[392]: Watching ‘/Users/Bob/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports’ for recent crash reports with prefix 'TotalSpaces2’
8/24/17 7:54:05.397 AM TotalSpaces2[304]: Inject called: waitingToInject: 0 injectionBackoff: 0
8/24/17 7:54:05.403 AM TotalSpaces2[304]: Sending injection events to 236
8/24/17 7:54:05.407 AM TotalSpaces2[304]: Monitoring Dock 236
8/24/17 7:54:05.413 AM Dock[236]: [TotalSpaces] TotalSpacesInjector v2.0.2 received init event
8/24/17 7:54:05.470 AM Dock[236]: [TotalSpaces] Loaded bundle from path: /Applications/TotalSpaces2.app/Contents/Resources/TotalSpaces.bundle
8/24/17 7:54:05.470 AM Dock[236]: [TotalSpaces] TotalSpacesInjector: Installing TotalSpaces …
8/24/17 7:54:05.470 AM Dock[236]: [TotalSpaces] FastSwitch2 © 2011-2016 Switchstep in association with BinaryAge
8/24/17 7:54:05.470 AM Dock[236]: [TotalSpaces] FastSwitch2 is being initialized
8/24/17 7:54:05.471 AM Dock[236]: [TotalSpaces] El Capitan detected
8/24/17 7:54:05.474 AM Dock[236]: [TotalSpaces] FastSwitch2 ready v2.5.4
8/24/17 7:54:05.507 AM Dock[236]: [TotalSpaces] Loaded bundle from path: /Applications/TotalSpaces2.app/Contents/Resources/GridZoom.bundle
8/24/17 7:54:06.408 AM TotalSpaces2[304]: Connecting Dock, backoff: 1
8/24/17 7:54:06.409 AM TotalSpaces2[304]: Dock connected
8/24/17 7:54:08.033 AM TotalSpaces2[304]: TotalSpaces2.app is carrying FS2 version 2.5.4

/Users/Bob/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports contains no files whose name or contents make any mention of TotalSpaces.

[stephen]

Nothin suspicious looking there. I’ll have a look at the code and see if I can come up with a theory as to what’s going on.

[bob8490]

Appreciated. I’d be happy to run a version with more verbosity in the logs for a few days if that might help. I can provide video of the issue as well if it would be useful. Thank you for looking into this.

[bob8490]

Some more behavioral info that might help you:

After using control+option+g to open the instant expose, I click on a different desktop. Selected desktop gets highlighted with a white box, but display doesn’t ‘zoom’ to that desktop. Pressing esc does close the instant expose, but it zooms back to the current desktop before snapping to the new one that was highlighted.

So it ‘sort of’ works… Just definitely not correctly.

I don’t think this would have any effect, but I’m using BetterTouchTool to register a 4-finger swipe up and trigger my control+option+g shortcut, and a 4-finger swipe down to trigger a press of the esc key. Using the shortcuts manually doesn’t have any effect.

[stephen]

Hmm, sounds like something is blocking the space change whilst the overview grid is present.

I’ve been thinking about what that could be. I don’t know, but I do wonder if BTT is having some effect here. Might be worth stopping that and seeing if there is any change.

[bob8490]

I disabled BTT at your recommendation, but I’ve still experienced the issue. Might an update to Sierra do anything?