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On three occasions, I have invoked the dice, and after I move my cursor away, they do not lift back up into the notch. I can only accidentally reproduce it, so I don’t know what makes it happen. I am not complaining since having them not go away is fun. Is this a feature? If so, how do I make it happen on demand?

I love Notchmeister!

The question mark button suggests using the help menu for getting to this GitHub page. However, the help menu is inaccessible if the dock icon is hidden.
It might be a good idea to add a button or a link to this GitHub project in the dialog opened by the question mark button.

As in the title. Adding support for full-screen mode could make this app has a more consistent experience

In full-screen mode I've put my mouse behind the notch but nothing shows.

Well, it works properly in normal screen.

BTW, the icon behind the notch is quite interesting.

When Notchmeister is running and after some period of time (could be hours), swipe gestures to move between desktops and to show all desktops are delayed by as much as 30 seconds. Then they occur. Also, the festive setting movement of the lights leaves behind each light a smear of the light’s color and the lights don’t blink or do the usual. During the issue, WindowServer consumes 1GB+ and uses 100%+ CPU.

Notchmeister “Festive” setting.

Reproducible. Killing the Notchmeister process immediately fixes the issue.

Fresh wipe of SSD and re-install of macOS 12.2.1

Fresh manual creation of the user (not transferred via Migration Assistant or otherwise)

MacBook Pro (16-inch 2021
Sample of Notchmeister.txt
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When "Hide Dock icon and detect notch clicks" is turned on the settings window appears if I move the cursor under the notch.

When "Hide Dock icon and detect notch clicks" is disabled the window only appears if I click in the notch.

This appears to be new behavior with 1.0.4. M2 MacBook Air, no external screen.

It's be cool if you added a smoke/steam effect similar to Lungo's steam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3mXORPDguE

...or Disco.app's DVD burner smoke:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zklSrGUELjA

Given the same dual display setup as described in #23, the dice are shown on the upper display when hiding.
The video shows only the upper screen.

If you increase the amount of space on the display, Notchmeister displays halfway down the screen.

To reproduce:
Set Mac to default display resolution.
Start Notchmeister.
Set Mac to "more space" resolution.
Notice that Notchmeister is now 1/3 of the way down the screen from the top.

To resolve: restart Notchmeister.

I really like this and during usage I have noticed some small issues:

• it would be great do hide the dock icon
• if the pointer is enlarged with the accessibility settings this is not reflected in the nano radar image
• i had a few instances where the nano radar does not hide if the mouse is not behind the notch anymore.
  this also happens with the other effects but I'm not sure when this happens. moving too fast or closing an app.

I have a dual-display setup:

When I use the Cylon visual effect, I've noticed several issues:

1. When I enter the notch area, the cylon animation freezes and sends my cursor to the top right corner of my non-MacBook Pro primary display
2. Once the cylon effect is frozen, a second cylon animation is triggered:

Could Notchmeister be a Menu Bar app or otherwise run in the background so it doesn't have to be on the dock to work?

Summary:
If the user has multiple desktops open, the Notchmeister window will randomly open on all desktops; this happens even when the user has selected 'Assign to...All Desktops' or 'Assign to...This Desktop' in Notchmeister options.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open multiple desktops
2. Open Notchmeister
3. After a few minutes, swipe to other desktops

Expected Behavior:
Notchmeister window shouldn't open without user input; if it does open, it should be on assigned desktop only

Actual Behavior:
Notchmeister window opens unprompted on all desktops multiple times a day

App version:
v1.0 (15)

System Version:
macOS Monterey

Notes:
See attached screen recording
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/70352484/148466625-a69d2591-7834-4886-81ff-8456cf5aaa21.mov

The "Nano Radar" Some effects no longer stays on screen correctly. I already noticed this in the last beta, but forgot to report it.

Note:
Interestingly, this doesn't happen if the Notchmeister settings window is active.

Edit:
Having found out this, I tested the other effects again, and the following effects seem to have a very similar issue:

• Glow
• Plasma Leak (the sparks stop when the mouse no longer moves vs. continue where the settings window is active)
• Expando

Summary

Ever since updating to macOS Ventura all effects are glitchy and unpredictable.
When the notchmeister app is in focus, all the effects work great, however when clicking away from the app and returning it to the background, the notch effects are very buggy.

Issue

When dragging the mouse up to the notch while the app is minimized, the effects flickers on and off, particularily with the nano reader, which barely flips down.

Video of issue

Version

macOS Ventura (Version 13.0 Beta (22A5358e))
Notchmeister app store version 1.01

Sam Bunny on Dribbble has a pretty good idea that I'd like to request...

https://dribbble.com/shots/16716375-Notch-vs-Pointer-Interaction

I have a dual monitor setup where my MacBook is in Front of a bigger external display. Thus the arrangement has the MacBook's display on the bottom and the external display at the top - allowing the mouse to move "through" the notch when transitioning to the external display.

When doing this a few times quickly with the dice model (in the TestFlight 1.0.4 (36) build), the dice will stay on screen.

Original reported here: https://twitter.com/dimitribouniol/status/1471913342621028353

If you have a monitor arranged above the screen with a notch, many effects will break if you drag your cursor up through the notch and onto the external display. For instance, Nano Radar will continue showing the radar. If you then switch the effect, the old one will be stuck on screen.

Additionally, for Cylon, having an external display will zap the mouse pointer to the external display.

A final issue is on first launch, a dummy notch was placed on my central external display, but I haven't been able to reproduce it since.

My monitor layout. Note that the menubar is configured on the external display, and not the display with the notch:

The control panel seems to be bigger than the notch, and is this showing underneath it.

MacBook Pro 14", macOS 12.1, Notchmeister 1.0.1 (17)
(sorry for photo of screen, screenshots don't work obviously)

This is a minor issue, but to my eye, it appears that the Plasma effect trails off prematurely. Would it be possible to allow the sparks to drop further, perhaps all the way onto the dock? 😃

Solution is to quit and reopen. Happens I think every time I reconnect to external displays, which I do frequently at home and office. Above is example of reconnecting to my dual external displays. I get one of them when connecting to a single display. Thanks!

I'm using the TestFlight build and it seems like when the Cylon effect freezes, it doesn't disable the effect and allows other effects to run simultaneously:

Launching the latest TestFlight beta results in the following errors for me:

When I launch Notchmeister (either directly or via the "Open" button in TestFlight), it first takes a long while, before the two dialogs pop up.

Already tried deleting the app and re-installing it from TestFlight without success.

If you need more information (codesign details or anything), just let me know.

Hello!

I was thinking it would be a great feature to add if we could personalise some of the selected effects by changing their colours.
The effects that I had in mind for colour modification are Glow and Cylon. They can give a simple option to modify the colour by having a standard colour wheel next to them!

I hope it's a simple feature to add!

Love the app :D It's ingenious!!!

Hi!

Could we possibly have a cat that pops its head out when your cursor goes to the notch?

Also, I've noticed that the Fusion Dice has an inorganic tint now compared to pre-Sonoma. It's almost shiny now and before it was matted and dull, like how real dice are. This is not at all a big deal!! Just thought I'd put it out there in case the developers were unaware of it.

Thanks so much and keep up the good work, looking to forward to many more features!!!

I had Radar set as the effect and have noticed that it occasionally shows up when hovering on or near the title bar on some apps like iTerm2 and Nova. It seems to go away after quit, but thought it might be something worth looking into. Not sure if there are any logs I can provide, but let me know. Great app despite this occasional weirdness! I love the whimsy.

Nova

iTerm

It kind of takes away from it being an easter egg, and also does not look good, as it does not animate with the menu bar and rather as an element of the desktop.