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Attempting to launch Nightfall 3.0.0 on macOS 12.4 for the first time:

Currently running:

• macOS Monterey 12.5.1
• Nightfall Version 2.1.3 (145853c)

My current Nightfall smooth transition preferences are:

• Delay: 0 seconds
• Duration: 0.5 seconds

I have included a screen capture.

The smooth transition works very nicely when in Light mode and transitioning to dark mode. However, when transitioning from dark mode to light mode there is no smooth transition for the menu bar and wallpaper. When transitioning from dark to light mode there is a delay of fewer than 1 second before the system changes to light mode and there is no smooth transition it's just a slightly delayed, sudden appearance change. The application windows still have a smooth transition e.g. the Finder window, Safari, Chrome etc.

From Dark to Light mode I noticed that if I increased the smooth transition duration there would still be a delay and the menu bar&wallpaper still "jolt" a little before the transition started, however, the smooth transition would be visible.
Conversely, if I turned off Smooth transition there would still be a delay when transitioning from Dark to Light mode.

A few days ago MacOS reported that nightfall will damage your computer.

Certain shortcuts seem to get "eaten up" and thus cannot be used to configure Nightfall's shortcut in the settings window.

One of them is ⌃⌥⌘A, another one is the default ⌃⌥⌘T.
So after changing the shortcut once, you can't change it back to the default.

Hi I just started using this app on the M1 MacBook Pro and it runs fine via Rosetta but if possible a native release would be nice. It should only involve updating the architecture list and rebuilding as detailed here.

Another related suggestion which I can create another issue for if needed is updating the app icon to be consistent with the new icon style introduced in Big Sur.

Thanks for reading!

Awesome work with getting it to transition gracefully to dark/light mode! I currently use a global hotkey to transition, which does so suddenly but works every time.

Nightfall seems to often ignore the hotkey unless the 'correct' application is in focus. e.g.������������ with Home.app in focus it will never capture the hotkey and transition, but with the Shortcuts pref in focus it works everytime.

Since it's using macOS' built-in API to capture the shortcut not sure how much control you have over this - perhaps adding a CLI flag to toggle (and then being able to call that through Alfred or SKHD) could offer another way to tackle this?

Catalina 10.15.4

Hi,

I really like your app, it's very handy for me. But I just encountered a bug in Finder. Here's what happened:

• Switched to dark mode
• Turned off MacBook Pro
• Turned it on
• Then when I went into the finder some of my folders still had the dark mode look (see here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wimxfa1l4udnpbb/Bildschirmfoto%202020-03-04%20um%2011.28.15.png?dl=0)
• A MacBook restart fixed this

Maybe you could have a look into this issue. That would be awesome :-)

p.s. Just a small feature suggestion: I would find it so great if you implemented an option to always launch in light mode.

When I launch nightfall I get a dialog box that says An AppleScript error occurred. Error -2147450879. I've accepted everything in system preferences.

This indicates the full error message is cannot set default target of scripting component 0 to (null)

I've used Nightfall for a long time- love it!

Today I got this popup when trying to start it:

If I press "Cancel", it just returns after a few seconds.

System Preferences / Security doesn't show the usual dialog / allow button.

Any insight into what this is about? I'm on Big Sur via 2019/2020 MBP

Add an option allowing left click to open the options menu, and right click to toggle dark mode.

Firstly, thank you for this tool! I use it a lot to test appearance stuff when developing.

I didn't realise I was on an older version (2.1.1) for a while as I installed this ~1 year ago and hadn't bothered checking for updates.

I think it could be quite useful to have either automatic update checks (say, weekly), or maybe a "Check for Updates" option in the right-click menu.

Hey!

Thanks for making this. It would be awesome if it could run a shell script on theme change :)

It would be nice if also the desktop wall paper could change, based on two different choices: one for light and one for dark.

Is it possible?

As the title says, I turn on the animation, it asks for recording permission, I give it permission and restart it, and then it still asks for permission and the animation doesn't work. I've tried restarting and still doesn't work. I installed with homebrew.

It looks like the new way to accomplish “launch at login” functionality is with SMAppService instead of SMLoginItemSetEnabled, which this app uses currently.

SMAppService does not exist prior to macOS 13, though, and I’d rather not maintain two implementations of the same thing, so we’d need to drop support for older macOS versions. Maybe in a few years.

Trying to compile on Xcode 14.3.1 fails with this error

'init(display:outputWidth:outputHeight:pixelFormat:properties:handler:)' is only available in macOS 13.0 or newer

This is patently untrue, as this app has been using the same API for years. It seems this is a bug in Xcode, where this API was incorrectly marked as introduced in macOS 13.

Allegedly fixed in Xcode 15.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76181646/xcode-14-3-deprecating-quartcore-apis-in-a-weird-way

https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/726289

When building latest master changing smooth transition values is not possible. There not shown, although screen recording is permitted.
Xcode 13.2.1 Macos 12.2 (21D48)

Split from #11

Hey,

today I restarted my MacBook to install a minor Update (OSX 11.6.3) and got this message:

“Nightfall.app” will damage your computer. You should move it to the Trash.

I installed the nightfall (V 2.1.2) via brew. I'm pretty sure it's a false positive.

error: Build input file cannot be found: '/Users/ryanthomson/Developer/Nightfall/Nightfall/Views/PreferencesView.swift'

Please replace
AFCF6CB223B5254400C5CA70 /* PreferencesView.swift */ = {isa = PBXFileReference; lastKnownFileType = sourcecode.swift; name = PreferencesView.swift; path = /Users/ryanthomson/Developer/Nightfall/Nightfall/Views/PreferencesView.swift; sourceTree = "<absolute>"; };

with

AFCF6CB223B5254400C5CA70 /* PreferencesView.swift */ = {isa = PBXFileReference; lastKnownFileType = sourcecode.swift; path = PreferencesView.swift; sourceTree = "<group>"; };

in project.pbxproj file

While toggling to dark/light mode for the first time, a prompt comes up asking the user to grant Nightfall permission to record the screen.
I consider this a bug.

macOS 10.15.6 (19G2021)

To really crank up the laziness of devs have the modes be determined by the ambient light.

From a quick Google I found

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17625495/how-do-you-programmatically-access-the-ambient-light-sensor-on-mac-os-x-10-5

But thanks to Apple that may or may not work.

I would like to be able to set Dark Mode to activate and deactivate separately from Night Shift. Previously I accomplished this with Night Owl, which has been degraded with spyware by its new owner.

I hope to increase the option of hiding menu application icons, and I am usually used to shortcut keys，Hope to adopt the opinions, thank you！

Hey there.
First off, thank you for making this awesome little app, 2nd - is there a way to donate, like www.buymeacoffee.com or so?

And last but not least (I know it's a bit of a legacy thing as my work mac is still Monterey), I'm getting a funny error regarding screen recording permissions. I've already granted this permission but I still get a popup asking to grant access. Nothing wild but I thought I mention it.

Thanks again for this great little tool.
btw: It runs perfectly on my private M2 :)

After upgrading to macOS Monterey 12.0.1 Nightfall can no longer be opened.
The following pop-ups show up when trying:

The application "Nightfall" can't be opened

"Nightfall" will damage your computer. You should move it to the Bin.

I've noticed that whenever I resume from the laptop being closed or asleep, I have to reopen nightfall. I'm not sure if it's crashing or closing itself, but it adds a fair bit of friction.

I'm on an M1 Max running Sonoma 14.5.

it tells me I need to update and contact the developer.

Thank you for this lovely utility, the ability to animate the toggle is lovely. One thing I'd love to be able to do is to toggle the menubar icon to be hidden––is this something that's been considered?