Cryptomator: macOS Catalina: Cryptomator wants to capture keystrokes for all apps

[purejava]

Hi,

on macOS Catalina (10.15) Cryptomator 1.4.16 asks for permission to capture keystrokes for all apps on installation.

I suspect this to be necessary for keystrokes like ⌘+Q to work, but wanted to check here.

Thanks.

[tobihagemann]

Related: https://community.cryptomator.org/t/cryptomator-requesting-keyboard-input-monitoring-on-mac/4261

It looks like an upstream issue in JavaFX: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8231513

For anyone stumbling upon this issue: You can deny this permission without losing any functionality. We hope that JavaFX fixes this soon.

@purejava Could you please try to deny this permission and check if keystrokes still work? I don't have a Catalina system right now. 😅

[purejava]

Both ⌘+Q and ⌘+, (I think those are implemented so far) do work fine with the permission mentioned above not set during installation or set during installation and removed after installation.

Everything is fine.

[overheadhunter]

A fix is being worked on (openjdk/jfx#102), which will probably make it into OpenJFX 14.

[overheadhunter]

We will make a last-minute decision whether this will make it into 1.5.0. Depends on whether at last an RC version of OpenJFX 14 is released that we can use. Otherwise we will postpone this fix to 1.5.1.