Can not disable mouse trigger

Bug Reports
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Describe the bug
Can not disable trigger or trigger group.
While I can disable triggers under trackpad, the mouse trigger, when toggled will not be disabled.

Affected input device (e.g. MacBook Trackpad, Magic Mouse/Trackpad, Touch Bar, etc.):
Mouse

Screenshots

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Device information:

  • Type of Mac: Macbook Pro 2018
  • macOS version: 10.14.6 (18G95)
  • BetterTouchTool version: 3.201
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Thanks for reporting! Will be fixed with the next update.

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Hi Andreas, thanks for the update. It seems to have been fixed in the latest update, but now even when toggling to disable an action or a group the action still continues to work although disabled.

4

I'm not sure I completely understand. Does disabling mouse triggers work for you with the new version?
Groups currently can not be disabled as a whole (however should probably add that)

5

I disable a trigger but it (it looks as disabled with a smaller opacity than when active) but the trigger still keeps working although it looks as it has been disabled.

Also, it seems that groups can be disabled though:

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Here is a gif to illustrate the problem:

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1 Like
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@Andreas_Hegenberg I have a similar issue with the latest version 3.258 in 10.15.1 (19B88) Catalina , but it seems to affect only the Mouse settings: can't disable any of them, they continue to work even when disabled/greyed out (I've tested a few Trackpad settings and they didn't work when disabled)
FYI the issue I have isn't with a physical mouse, but with a Karabiner-Elements remapping keyboard keys to mouse scrolling, some of which fail to scroll since they are remapped in BetterTouchTool (though in a disabled state).

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Ha, came here to report just this. It looks like it was never fixed, maybe. (I'm running 3.834 on Ventura beta.)

@Andreas_Hegenberg the situation is this:

  • Normal Mouse triggers lack the checkbox "Shortcut is Enabled" that keyboard shortcuts do. I suspect this is part of the problem.
  • Cmd-D does appear to toggle the mouse trigger -- making it grey text (or not), but the trigger still operates no matter what the state is

I have one right now that turns a middle click into multiple left clicks, in Chrome. (Google Docs, select a paragraph easily.) I only need it to be active on that particular website, though -- so, I go into BTT and disable it, most of the time. Only, it isn't disabled. If I exit BTT, then it's disabled, but doing that makes me sad.

Thanks

-Tom Hundt

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Not sure, it seems to work fine here with the current alpha (3.971), but I don't remember when it was changed.

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Just installed 3.975, same problem. I created a trigger for the middle mouse button, which does the predefined action "Middle Click" (lol) and the Advanced action HUD Overlay to display "middle mouse". So now it works normally, only, I get this message flashing up every time.

And I can't disable it. If I hit Cmd-D it toggles between grey text and white text (NB dark mode) but that's the only thing that changes.

Thanks

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so even if you disable it you still get the HUD? Or the middle click? (When disabled, the system will perform the default middle click again)

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As illustrated in the images shared above, the shortcuts continue to work after disabling.

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so even if you disable it you still get the HUD? Or the middle click?

Yes. :wink:

I mean, both. I only assigned Middle Click as sort of a no-op action so I could test it without losing that functionality, which I use a lot. I know from previous experience that exactly what the action is doesn't matter; it's the trigger recognition that's the problem.

Thanks