# BTT stops working regularly, HUD adter restart

**URL:** <https://community.folivora.ai/t/btt-stops-working-regularly-hud-adter-restart/32267>\
**Category:** Bugs or Unexpected Behavior\
**Created:** [July 12, 2023, 8:38pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/btt-stops-working-regularly-hud-adter-restart/32267 "2023-07-12T20:38:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![sud](https://community.folivora.ai/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@sud](https://community.folivora.ai/u/sud)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2023, 8:38pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/btt-stops-working-regularly-hud-adter-restart/32267/1 "2023-07-12T20:38:33Z")

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Hello, again and as always : thank you for this amazing piece of sotware.

I'm running MacOS sonoma, but the issue was the same in Ventura.

1. Often, I notice than my shortcuts do not work anymore (I hav a lot of 3 fingers swipeds for tab management), and I have to reboot BTT to make it work. I already ticked the option "restart BTT after wake up from sleep, but the issues remain.
2. To automatize it, I created a shortcut within the "automate" section that, when I unlock the computer (often), it restarts BTT and displays a HUD overlay AND a notification AFTER restart.

So, it half works. I do have the Notification, but NOT the HUD (other HUD shortcuts work). Is that because BTT stops pursuing a shortcut once restarted? If so why do I receive the notification.

I tried to add a HUD overlay BEFORE restarting, with a 2 second delay after unlocking and after the HUD, but the HUD still don't display. Am I missing something ?

Thank you !

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**Author:** ![Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/andreas_hegenberg/32/39221_2.png) [@Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/u/Andreas_Hegenberg)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2023, 8:43pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/btt-stops-working-regularly-hud-adter-restart/32267/2 "2023-07-12T20:43:29Z")

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This sounds like an issue some users encountered with recent macOS versions, which is discussed here:

> [@BTT stops working after sleep or close lid](https://community.folivora.ai/t/btt-stops-working-after-sleep-or-close-lid/26473/22):
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> After receiving a few more logs, it seems like for some reason macOS is intentionally freezing the BetterTouchTool app on some machines until a user action targeted to the app is recognized. I don't know why it would do that, maybe it's a way to save resources and maybe it only does it in specific settings. I'm trying some ways to prevent that in version 4.166 alpha, would be great if you could test that and see whether the issue still occurs. The clamshell command mentioned above might still …

Possibly try the latest alpha version of BTT.

The HUD thing is interesting, could be another piece in that puzzle 🙂

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**Author:** ![sud](https://community.folivora.ai/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@sud](https://community.folivora.ai/u/sud)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2023, 9:37pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/btt-stops-working-regularly-hud-adter-restart/32267/3 "2023-07-12T21:37:25Z")

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What’s great with BTT is that, on top of an already great software, there’s also an amazing developer activity. Thank you really. Sometimes I think your software is not expensive enough !