App Specific Settings

Configuration Help & General Discussion
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I would like to ask some questions regarding the following options in app specific settings:

App Specific Settings Options
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Question 1 (Disable Specific Features)
If I don't use "Window Snapping", "Drawings/Mouse Gestures" and "Clipboard Manager" in a specific application, but I disable these 3 options under "Disable Specific Features," do I reduce the resources consumed by BTT?

Question 2 (Accessibility API)
The checkbox of "Poll AX Attributes (advanced)" is for enabling or disabling polling? Is there a polling interval defined here?

Question 3 (Accessibility API)
If I don't use "AXEnhancedUserInterface" in a specific application and I disable it, do I reduce the resources consumed by BTT? What is exactly "AXEnhancedUserInterface"

Question 4 (Accessibility API)
What is "Enable AXEnhancedUserInterface" for?

Thanks!

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Enabling. If I remember correctly, the default interval is 1.5 seconds. I use 1 second.

I used this command in the terminal app to set it to 1s. You need to quit BTT first:

defaults write com.hegenberg.BetterTouchTool BTTAXPollingInterval 1

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No, in that case these checkboxes do nothing. They only affect enabled features

AXEnhancedUser interfaces enables additional accessibility API features in the app (mostly in Chromium or Electron based apps). They don’t affect BTT performance but can affect the performance of the specific app. Don’t enable unless you need to access specific UI elements (e.g. via advanced trigger conditions)

In general the default settings minimize resource usage, changes in the app specific settings can only increase resource usage.

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Thanks a lot for your replies @Frank1 and @Andreas_Hegenberg

Andreas, I would suggest to change the label of "Poll AX Attributes (advanced)" to "Enable Poll AX Attributes (advanced)". It would make more clear what the checkbox does.