I hope I have identified the issue and fixed it in 2.684 (if not, it would be great if you'd go to the about tab in BTT and click the "export debug info" button. This will create a folder called BetterTOuchToolDebug that you can send to andreas@folivora.ai
Updated, but unfortunately the issue is still there.
What I have noticed though is that the TB will be active if BTT preferences is open and frontmost. As soon as I switch focus to another app though, it reverts back to Apple's TB.
@proactivematter is your Touch Bar possibly just hidden? (your preset seems to work fine here).
Could you try to create a keyboard shortcut and assign the "Toggle BetterTouchTool Touch Bar" action?
I've now taken notice that the problem is in the GLOBAL set - it's in fact the only thing that doesn't show up.
I hadn't noticed before because with the exception of GLOBAL, all other App's TB configurations are enabled via modifiers. But now I've noticed that these modifiers are working perfectly, and that I am only missing GLOBAL.
Sorry if a little confusing - was I clear enough? If not, perhaps I can send you a short video.
Could you try to disable the "hide of nothing to show" option in the BetterTouchTool Touchbar settings? Not sure why it would think there is nothing to show, but maybe that's it.
OK, so if I disable "Hide if Nothing to Show", then the touchbar shows "You have not yet configured actions in BetterTouchTool". So its not identifying my Global set for some reason.
Yes, I am on 2.684. Will now update to 2.685.
EDIT: Correction, I now understand what is fundamentally happening. The GLOBAL set is only active when I've nothing else configured for the focused app. The reason that the Global TB was showing up when BTT was frontmost was just because I don't have any TB actions configured for BTT.
Basically, the Global set is not being "combined" with other sets.
It wasn't enabled before I updated today to 2.683 though - everything had been working fine before that. I didn't know an update could toggle such a setting.
I have a similar issue.
When I configure a new widget - say the remaining battery widget - it gets added to the Touch Bar just as long as the widget customisation options are open
Once I hit save, the Touch Bar is back to displaying "You have not yet configured
actions in BetterTouchTool
I have verified that "Hide global actions if app specific actions are configured in BTT" isn't selected.
Hey @Andreas_Hegenberg, so I figured out what in fact happened before, and what changed in BTTs behavior for the issue to have arisen.
It's going to be a little hard explaining this, but I'll try to make it simple as possible:
If you look at my BTT setup, then you'll see that I have a global profile that is common across all apps, but then the apps themselves have a sort of "hidden" unique TB that is accessible by holding down the Command modifier.
For some work intensive apps however - like Adobe Lightroom - I do prefer to have the Global TB be replaced by a fully app-dedicated TB layout.
BEFORE THE UPDATE, with "Hide global actions" ON this meant that if I added only Modifier based actions to an app, then the Global actions would still show. This also meant that if I added any non-modifier actions, then these would replace Global actions completely.
AFTER THE UPDATE, the layouts no longer "mix", meaning that with "Hide global actions" ON, for apps where I had only modifier actions configured, nothing would show for "non-modifiers" (no Global in place of non-modifiers). After turning "Hide global actions" OFF however, now I cannot have app-based non-modifier actions that substitute the Global TB (the inverse happens, now the non-modifier layouts - Global and App based - MIX together).
