Hi Andreas,
I want to use your fabulous floating menus with my new graphic tablet in specified apps and started to use your circular action menu template.
It works really fine but every first time I trigger it in the specified app, it will flicker = the mouse position is stuck in one part of the menu. When I use it again and stay in the app focus, the problem is gone. If I change to another app and back, it flickers again – see the attached video …
I tried it with the original template and latest BTT alpha Version: 6.185 (2026021102) – same problem.
I use the latest macOS Sequoia on an M1 macBook Air.
Thanks for your attention!
Björn
What trigger are you using to show the menu?
Show Floating Menu: Circular Action Ring
I mean what kind of trigger (mouse click, keyboard shortcut, gesture...)?
Ah! I use a keyboard-command: ctrl+cmd+y – it is the only trigger.
Very strange, I can't seem to reproduce the issue here.
Could you go to Help => Export Diagnostic Debug Information and send the result to me? (andreas@folivora.ai)
Does maybe the steal keyboard focus option make any difference?
I found the problem – it is the Huion Kamvas 13 graphic tablet driver. When I kill it, BTT works fine!
When I (have to) use it, BTT will get the cursor position wrong the first time ...
Workaround for me now is to make the floating menu global; then the problem only comes up the first time in the whole macOS session.
Maybe – if other pen drivers also bring problems – BTT could have a better startup process / option for menus?
I sent you my diagnostics 
Thanks for answering so fast!!
Björn
Actually it helped to deactivate
“Always Move & Resize To Defined Position When Showing”
in
“Show Floating Menu: Circular Action Ring”, so that the Position is defined via the floating menu options and not in the show action … and leave the Floating Menu itself in the “For All Apps” category.
Having this same problem with the default Circular Menu template if I change its size. Change the “Min Width and Height in Pixels” from 300x300 to 800x800 for example. This happens if I show the Menu with mouse or keyboard.
It seems to be an issue on first launch of the Menu, but the problem is worse if the menu is App Specific, making it a Global Menu helps but doesn’t solve the problem.
macOS - 15.7.3
BTT - 6.185
Update: Just updated to BTT 6.187 and have the same issue, but now with the default Circular Menu without having to change the menu size.
there hasn't been a related change in 6.187 (and quite some versions before that), so this is probably a coincidence.
Do you have any other mouse related apps running?
Could you try whether disabling this option fixes the issue for you?
I have made a little change in 6.188 which should help if that option is enabled but the mouse is not being pressed while hovering
//edit dang, these fixes do not really work for the circular menu yet. I'll release another build that applies them there as well.
I have Karabiner installed, but no other mouse related apps running.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the “Recognize Hover While Mouse is Pressed” option was somehow related. I’ve had problems with that option recently, it was causing menus that shouldn’t be visible to appear randomly, so I’ve had it turned off for a while.
Having said that, I just tried this with BTT 6.193, with “Recognize Hover While Mouse is Pressed” OFF, and it seems to have maybe changed a little, now it only flickers 1 time on first launch of menu.
I don't think that option can make menus appear, it is only checked after a menu is visible. However it turned out the issue was not related to that option after all!
6.193 and later should improve the behavior of both, the circular menu and the “Recognize Hover While Mouse is Pressed” option.
If I had to guess, I’d say it has something to do with menus being recognized as being visible, even when they’re not.
I have some menus that only appear On Hover Start of a button. Menu A shows Menu B On Hover Start of Button A. If Menu A is hidden, but is somehow still recognized as visible, then Menu B shows when hovering over the right area of the screen. This only seems to happen with the “Recognize Hover While Mouse is Pressed” option ON, AND pressing a mouse button.
But… that’s a whole other problem anyway, just thought I’d mention it here in case it was useful.
I'll try to reproduce! (If you have some setup that allows to reproduce the issue easily, would be great if you could share that with me)
OnHoverProblem.bttpreset (65.2 KB)
Here’s a basic preset with the issue. It’s based on your “Default Menu Template” with just a few changes. It shows a menu when pressing the “~“ key. The issue seems to be related to the “Keep Menu In Cache” setting as well.
So these 2 cause the problem (you might have to toggle them on/off to see the issue):
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“Recognize Hover While Mouse is Pressed” - ON
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“Keep Menu In Cache” - ON
If I turn either OFF I don’t have the issue. Also if I disable, then re-enable the preset, the problem stops for a while.
