ActivityWatch 12 do not logs activity on macos 12.4

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#1

Hi, i’ve just installed AW v0.12.0 using .dmg from official website. I’ve launched it, worked for some time and when i open dashbord in browser(via tray icon) i have Time active:0s

Seems like os somehow blocking logging. Is there any way to make it work?

AW seems working, but logs noting

#2

By the way, AFK watcher seems to work. In timeline tab i see “no afk” activities. But no apps have been logged

And same issue on macos 10.15.7 (19H1419) (Catalina)

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#3

Same issue
from the aw-watcher -window log:

Exception: jxa error: Error: Error: An error occurred.
2022-09-13 11:27:42 [ERROR]: Exception thrown while trying to get active window  (aw_watcher_window.main:77)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "aw_watcher_window/main.py", line 74, in heartbeat_loop
  File "aw_watcher_window/lib.py", line 55, in get_current_window
  File "aw_watcher_window/lib.py", line 27, in get_current_window_macos
  File "aw_watcher_window/macos_jxa.py", line 64, in getInfo
#4

I have tried this solution A hacky way of fixing the `aw-watcher-window` issue on macOS · Discussion #768 · ActivityWatch/activitywatch · GitHub

sort of work but it started to track all apps except for browsers(usage of chrome safari etc do not logged at all). and i started to get input problems(was unavailable to type anything in different apps and browsers until reboot). So solution not ideal

I revert everything back and will not use activitywatch until there is good solution to logging problem

#5

Not sure what is going wrong here. I’m running ActivityWatch v0.12.1 just fine on my M2 (macOS 12.5) and my gf’s M1.

There’s an issue tracking a possibly related problem here: https://github.com/ActivityWatch/activitywatch/issues/801