# Widget not showing

**URL:** <https://community.folivora.ai/t/widget-not-showing/46368>\
**Category:** Configuration Help & General Discussion\
**Created:** [February 25, 2026, 9:06pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/widget-not-showing/46368 "2026-02-25T21:06:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![StanN](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/stann/32/44869_2.png) [@StanN](https://community.folivora.ai/u/StanN)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 9:06pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/widget-not-showing/46368/1 "2026-02-25T21:06:43Z")

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Hey @Andreas_Hegenberg I placed a swift file in '/Library/Application Support/BetterTouchTool/Plugins'

 ![image](https://community.folivora.ai/uploads/default/original/3X/e/f/efb5a1e9a4fd5dd0e85c5b0a7a71bca97680d8b5.png)  
it got precessed but I can’t find it anywhere in BetterTouchTool config. Any idea where to look?

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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:** [February 25, 2026, 9:08pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/widget-not-showing/46368/2 "2026-02-25T21:08:39Z")

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In the floating menu item dropdown you'll have "Custom Widget Plugin"

 ![image](https://community.folivora.ai/uploads/default/original/3X/c/8/c8be686dab72f7cf1097a941a2fb3ae1726b8a99.jpeg)

There you can then select it:

 ![image](https://community.folivora.ai/uploads/default/original/3X/b/b/bb6cbb34d0a5b53402e782443e8bce5b222ae0f8.jpeg)

I'll make this a bit easier tomorrow by having a separate plugin section in the standard selector

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**Author:** ![StanN](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/stann/32/44869_2.png) [@StanN](https://community.folivora.ai/u/StanN)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 9:18pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/widget-not-showing/46368/3 "2026-02-25T21:18:39Z")

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Thx, found it:  
How do you show it on the desktop? It's not in Edit Widgets:

 ![image](https://community.folivora.ai/uploads/default/original/3X/c/e/ce35e58b9441fb825b297e119e6a935413e913d8.jpeg)

 ![image](https://community.folivora.ai/uploads/default/original/3X/8/2/82a0ca9061fe2a758179fa4f001bfd54b717f66a.png)

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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:** [February 25, 2026, 9:19pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/widget-not-showing/46368/4 "2026-02-25T21:19:33Z")

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see

> **[Desktop Widgets | BetterTouchTool Documentation](https://docs.folivora.ai/docs/floating-menus/desktop-widgets/)**
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> The floating menus can also be used as interactive Desktop widgets. For now they are fully handled by BTT. In the future BTT might make use of the native desktop widget functionality provided by macOS.

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**Author:** ![StanN](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/stann/32/44869_2.png) [@StanN](https://community.folivora.ai/u/StanN)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 9:41pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/widget-not-showing/46368/5 "2026-02-25T21:41:16Z")

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added a named trigger with the timer widget. when run it repeatedly:

 ![image](https://community.folivora.ai/uploads/default/original/3X/3/6/36e24368a3770866a130e16441e5034ad6f6337a.png)

macOS: Sequoia (15.7.3)  
BetterTouchTool: 6.210

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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:** [February 25, 2026, 9:42pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/widget-not-showing/46368/6 "2026-02-25T21:42:31Z")

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if possible please share the crashlog (console app crash report section).

Where exactly did you add a named trigger?

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**Author:** ![StanN](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/stann/32/44869_2.png) [@StanN](https://community.folivora.ai/u/StanN)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 9:45pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/widget-not-showing/46368/7 "2026-02-25T21:45:50Z")

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For all apps

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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:** [February 25, 2026, 9:47pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/widget-not-showing/46368/8 "2026-02-25T21:47:26Z")

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I mean, did you add it as an action to the widget?

Like this?

 ![image](https://community.folivora.ai/uploads/default/original/3X/2/0/204fc746587b716018afc08c1a4baa159f0abec2.jpeg)

Or something else?

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**Author:** ![StanN](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/stann/32/44869_2.png) [@StanN](https://community.folivora.ai/u/StanN)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 9:49pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/widget-not-showing/46368/9 "2026-02-25T21:49:19Z")

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![image](https://community.folivora.ai/uploads/default/original/3X/9/a/9a1d756fcf93461b5bdb041f9ec93315a047174d.png)

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**Author:** ![StanN](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/stann/32/44869_2.png) [@StanN](https://community.folivora.ai/u/StanN)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 9:50pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/widget-not-showing/46368/10 "2026-02-25T21:50:46Z")

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send the console log by email

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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:** [February 25, 2026, 9:52pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/widget-not-showing/46368/11 "2026-02-25T21:52:27Z")

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wait, that named trigger triggers itself 🙂 (resulting in millions of calls within seconds, eventually crashing BTT)

What are you trying to set up?

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**Author:** ![StanN](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/stann/32/44869_2.png) [@StanN](https://community.folivora.ai/u/StanN)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 9:58pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/widget-not-showing/46368/12 "2026-02-25T21:58:43Z")

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I just want to show the widget on the desktop, I thought I try it tem. via a named trigger. I've tried the level setting but doesn’t seem to show the widget.

[timer\_widget.bttpreset](https://community.folivora.ai/uploads/short-url/3XNrnTyT6xUeR4Bq2NHLtkKg8bm.bttpreset) (11.0 KB)

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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:** [February 25, 2026, 10:04pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/widget-not-showing/46368/13 "2026-02-25T22:04:23Z")

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Does the widget show in your floating menu in general? Just not on desktop?

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**Author:** ![StanN](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/stann/32/44869_2.png) [@StanN](https://community.folivora.ai/u/StanN)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 10:09pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/widget-not-showing/46368/14 "2026-02-25T22:09:26Z")

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no also not there, but if pressed the preview

 ![image](https://community.folivora.ai/uploads/default/original/3X/4/d/4d0e7125a0e12c1a332409902de8ed6d97e13d10.png)

it shows:

 ![image](https://community.folivora.ai/uploads/default/original/3X/1/9/198325cf863bc9b7f078c6c599a7219fc7c52cbc.png)

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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:** [February 25, 2026, 10:10pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/widget-not-showing/46368/15 "2026-02-25T22:10:26Z")

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could you share the timer.swift you used? was it the example from my docs?

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**Author:** ![StanN](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/stann/32/44869_2.png) [@StanN](https://community.folivora.ai/u/StanN)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 10:12pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/widget-not-showing/46368/16 "2026-02-25T22:12:06Z")

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yes it is, here is the file (.swift upload not allowed 🙂 :

[timer.swift.zip](https://community.folivora.ai/uploads/short-url/vcsgftB3rgogeK06L24zei7nFgd.zip) (1.2 KB)

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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:** [February 25, 2026, 10:19pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/widget-not-showing/46368/17 "2026-02-25T22:19:18Z")

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I think the maximum width and height of your floating menu item are set to 40px, maybe that causes it to not render correctly.

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**Author:** ![StanN](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/stann/32/44869_2.png) [@StanN](https://community.folivora.ai/u/StanN)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 10:29pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/widget-not-showing/46368/18 "2026-02-25T22:29:17Z")

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played with the menu and item sizes:

 ![image](https://community.folivora.ai/uploads/default/original/3X/5/b/5ba23704c4b39a83627f5b1b8cd0a3a93c49b5b8.png)

clicking preview:

 ![image](https://community.folivora.ai/uploads/default/original/3X/6/9/69a6565acf8e5329430fef94a14c867dc0af1551.png)

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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:** [February 25, 2026, 10:31pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/widget-not-showing/46368/19 "2026-02-25T22:31:06Z")

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great, then it works! (these plugins can unfortunately not be previewed for technical reasons thus the yellow/red warning sign). Because of that it will only work when really being rendered in the real menu).

Now you should be able to change the z-index.

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**Author:** ![StanN](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/stann/32/44869_2.png) [@StanN](https://community.folivora.ai/u/StanN)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2026, 10:38pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/widget-not-showing/46368/20 "2026-02-25T22:38:07Z")

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ok, thx for now to be continued tomorrow 🙂

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