TotalTerminal activation not working correctly in Yosemite

steipete · July 22, 2014, 12:11pm

Same here. Worked pretty good on Yosemite b3, but it’s broken in b4.
Willing to donate money so this is fixed quickly.

grahamcracker · July 22, 2014, 1:35pm

Yes, I can confirm that TotalTerminal is also not working at all in DP4, even in “run as process” mode. Does anybody have a DP3-DP4 changelog so we can figure out what changed in the Terminal app to make this happen?

darwin · July 22, 2014, 2:04pm

I will look into that today. Unfortunately my thunderbolt adapter broke and all my external disks with Yosemite installations are inaccessible. Installing Yosemite on my primary disk, but it will take some time… with all updates.

darwin · July 22, 2014, 4:34pm

For some reason code-checking call fails for TotalTerminal.osax bundle.

A workaround is to inject TotalTerminal from Terminal.app manually:

osascript -e "tell application \"Terminal\" to «event BATTinit»"

alayron · July 22, 2014, 5:40pm

thx works as temporary solution

pleeeeeez fix soon

Bainch · July 23, 2014, 7:25am

Thanks a lot darwin, that works for now

lucasmezencio · July 24, 2014, 1:54am

Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaanks a lot, dude!! =D

darwin · July 24, 2014, 1:58am

I found the problem. Embedded Sparkle framework has copied binaries instead of symlinks. Yosemite is more strict about bundle structure and fails code-sign checks when framework structure is malformed.

It will be fixed in a new release in a few days. I will also review keyboard shortcuts-related code.

iamnoskcaj · July 24, 2014, 8:49pm

THANK YOU for the quick response and work-around.

darwin · July 24, 2014, 9:44pm

I have just released TotalTerminal 1.5 on pre-release channel:

This fixes Yosemite “shell corrupted” issue during launch. I did lot of refactoring and code cleanups. I don’t think I have fixed the keyboard shortcut problems. I was unable to reproduce it on my Yosemite DP4 systems. At least I have reimplemented double-tap code, which could help.

Please report back while I have it my head. I will try to improve 1.5 with additional several releases over next few weeks.

Duffycola · July 25, 2014, 11:00am

Awesome!

erikreinertsen · July 25, 2014, 12:08pm

Thanks Darwin - you’re insanely fast! Really appreciate your hard work.

qwertyuiop · July 26, 2014, 4:04am

Hi Darwin sorry to hijack this thread, but it seems to be related.

With the latest TotalTerminal v1.5, the exposed AppleScript commands don’t seem to work anymore (I’m still on OS X Mavericks 10.9.4). Did something change with regard to these commands?

Thanks!

darwin · July 26, 2014, 1:13pm

ah, I’m sorry, I broke it. I have removed sharedInstance method recently:

github.com

binaryage/totalterminal-osax/blob/master/TotalTerminalInjector.mm#L184


}


gPrincipalClass = [pluginBundle principalClass];
if (!gPrincipalClass) {
  reportError(reply, [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Unable to retrieve principalClass for bundle: %@", pluginBundle]);
  return 3;
}


if (![gPrincipalClass respondsToSelector:@selector(install)]) {
  reportError(reply, [NSString stringWithFormat:@"TotalTerminal's principal class does not implement 'install' method!"]);
  return 7;
}


[gPrincipalClass install];


int selfCheckCode = performSelfCheck();
if (selfCheckCode) {
  reportError(reply, [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Self-check failed with code %d", selfCheckCode]);
  return 10;
}

I will fix it in next release (in a few days)

qwertyuiop · July 26, 2014, 6:50pm

Thanks so much!! Keep up the awesome work

ryanbillingsley · July 28, 2014, 1:14pm

Has anyone else noticed that, when activated, TotalTerminal flashes white? It just started after I installed 1.5 on 10.10 Beta 4

darwin · July 28, 2014, 1:34pm

I experienced that with first Yosemite DP, but it went away. Definitely something we should keep an eye on.

jescalan · August 5, 2014, 3:28am

Thank you so much for the fix! I use totalterminal potentially more than any other app – it’s a critical part of my daily workflow, and the slow activation bug was driving me crazy. <3 <3 <3, and let me know if you guys are accepting donations or I can give back in any way!

EDIT: Spoke too soon, it looks like the slow activation bug is still present Ah well, still love you guys and totalterminal, and looking forward to the fix in the future!

EDIT 2: To be clear, the bug can be reproduced by binding the terminal to a hotkey, opening it, closing it, then using a couple other apps for a minute or two, then trying to open it again. It’s about a full 30 second delay before it pops open.

jescalan · August 27, 2014, 3:18am

Hey sorry to bother you guys again, but this bug is slowly driving me absolutely insane. I rely on totalterminal so heavily for my daily work, and there is still regularly a 10+ second delay between when I hit the hotkey and when it appears. This makes it essentially useless for me, but I just can’t stand going back to a normal terminal window.

I would gladly sink time and/or money into helping out to solve this problem. Is there anything I can do to be of assistance?

WooD1k · March 19, 2015, 9:08pm

Hi there!

Looks like issue still occurs!

I’ve uninstalled and installed totalterminal and was able to use ctrl+ctrl shortcut, but after several hours i wasn’t able to use it.
Can i help you somehow to resolve this issue?

My setup:
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013)
Yosemite 10.10.3 (14D105g)
TotalTerminal 1.5.4

Thanks in advance!