🐛 Unexpected behavior for Tabs and Windows in BTT Configuration window

Bugs or Unexpected Behavior
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Describe the bug
Happy New Year Andreas! Hope you had some time to rest and spent some quality time with your family.

I'm consolidating here some unexpected behavior / bugs for Tabs and Windows in the BTT Configuration window. Addressing these points would help BTT users who use tabs and windows.

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Bug 1:

The active Trigger selection tab of two BTT Windows unexpectedly stay synchronized instead of being independent.

Bug 2:

The highlighted active trigger icon is not correct when switching tabs.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Create a new tab.

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  2. Switch to a different Trigger type (e.g. Keyboard Shortcuts)

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  3. Switch to the other tab.
    :bug: Unexpectedly, "Keyboard Shortcuts" icon is highlighted instead of "Automations & Named & Other Triggers" icon.

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Bug 3:

Tabs are not preserved when closing and reopening the BetterTouchTool (BTT) configuration window.

For example, if I create a second tab (via Cmd + T or File -> New Tab) and then close the BTT window, reopening it shows only a single tab—the one that was active when I closed the window. I would expect all open tabs to persist when reopening the configuration window.

Bug 4:

Active Preset Name and Triggers Become Inconsistent Across Tabs

  1. Open BTT configuration window. The active Preset is qa_btt_tabs.
  2. Create a new tab.
  3. Change the active Preset (e.g. qa_btt_tabs2). As expected, the name of the active preset is now qa_btt_tabs2.
  4. Create a new Trigger (e.g. Keyboard Shortcut -> Display HUD message).
  5. Switch to the other tab.
  6. The name of the active Preset is qa_btt_tabs. However, the Keyboard Shortcut we just created is still visible. This is unexpected because this Keyboard Shortcut trigger belongs to the qa_btt_tabs2 preset, not qa_btt_tabs.
  7. Clicking on the Preset name/dropdown, you can see the name of the active Preset is not consistent.
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Device information:

  • Device: MacBook Pro (14-inch, 2021)
  • macOS: 15.2 (24C101)
  • BTT Version: 5.00 (2025010701)
  • Alpha: 0 update(s) behind latest Alpha version 5.00 (2025010701).
  • Regular: Installed version is ahead of latest Regular version 4.999.