Clicking the menu extra icon to access options causes Tahoe RC (25A353) to become unresponsive

[joaofrgomes]

I tried firing up MacMediaKeyForwarder on an external SSD running the last public beta build of macOS 26 Tahoe, 25A353 (the Release Candidate that will likely be sent of to distribution to the public tomorrow), and it causes the UI to become extremely unresponsive after trying to use the app and opening the menu to access its options.

On the first few attempts I could still kill the process from Activity Monitor, but on my last one I had to resort to killing it from the Terminal, as not even that would work.

I know this fork of MMKF is, at this point, abandonware, but I felt it would be important to warn other users to not attempt to use it on Tahoe, as it is no longer likely to work.

[tom-un]

I debugged it: in startEventSession it calls CFRunLoopRun() but this is creating a nested run loop that blocks the UI. If I just comment out that line (line 405) it works.

I raised a PR to fix it #27.

[ospfranco]

If you are interested, I pretty much copied the code from mac media key forwarder into sol. Now including @tom-un patch. Everything seems to be working in macOS tahoe

[teelmo]

I would be interested in the patch! Thank you for all your work.

(I've also introduced myself to Sol and I can confirm it accomplishes the same functionality as Macmediakeyforwarder)

[raz2112]

I debugged it: in startEventSession it calls CFRunLoopRun() but this is creating a nested run loop that blocks the UI. If I just comment out that line (line 405) it works.

I raised a PR to fix it #27.

How can i download this as an Application? I can apparently only download your source code version.

[tom-un]

The owner of this repo needs to merge my Pull Request, rebuild and publish a new Release.

[draxx31]

The owner of this repo needs to merge my Pull Request, rebuild and publish a new Release.

Hello @tom-un ,

I think he will not do it. The owner is inactive from more than 1 year. One solution should be you take the ownership by forking the repo and offering to everybody. What do you think ?

[mauricioaschmitz]

Until someone do this, the app Reflex is solving my problem in Tahoe.

[tom-un]

TBH, I'm not using anything right now. My biggest issue was the pressing the "Play" button invokes the Apple Music app if nothing is playing. I just have Spotify start on login now and forget about it.

[tom-un]

Actually, Tahoe still messes up which app to send media keys. Thanks @mauricioaschmitz : https://stuntsoftware.com/reflex/ is working well for me.

[danilokleber]

I'm also using Reflex for the time being. Unfortunately it doesn't have an Apple Silicon native build.