Prevents keyboard usage and shows empty resolution list with Sonoma 14.5 and

[mkresse]

Hi,

first of all, thanks for the time you put into developing this useful application. On my Macbook Pro (M1) with Sonoma 14.5 it unfortunately does not seem to work properly. The list of resolutions is empty (see screenshot):

Furthermore, after the menu is closed, no keyboard input in any other application is accepted (only a click sound is played), until I quit ResolutionMenu. I also notices, that the app doesn't react on the first click on the icon in the menu - it opens only on the second click.

Thanks for your help.

[robbertkl]

I'm not actively maintaining this anymore. That being said, I did just try it on my MacBook Pro (M3 Pro) with Sonoma 14.5 and it works fine. It's showing the full list of resolutions and I don't have any of the issues you're describing.

From what you're describing (click sound when using keyboard), it seems like there is a popup active, maybe asking for permission for something. Look for some kind of dialog on your screen. It might have something to do with the "Start at Login"; try turning that off as well.

[sajalguptajft]

@mkresse Same thing happening for me on MacBook Air M3 with Sonoma 14.6.1.

[jewesta]

I'm not actively maintaining this anymore.

That is a real shame. 😔 ResolutionMenu has become an essential for me over the years. I absolutely love it and I have recommended it to many Mac users as there is no alternative. At least none that comes close in terms of simplicity and usability and that I know of.

Just wanted to chime in and say that I have the exact same issue on a MacBook Pro M4 (Sequoia 15.1.1). However, this only happens when an external Display is connected. Which kind of makes is useless for me as macOS scaling the external display in an inconvenient way is the exact reason why I require ResolutionMenu in the first place. Once I disconnect the external monitor and restart ResolutionMenu, everything works as expected. With Sonoma on an Intel Mac it worked like a charm with the same monitor.

I also have the feeling there is a modal security dialog in the background that is invisible.

Please reconsider maintaining ResolutionMenu, as I feel there is a very concrete reason for what is happening. 🙏 🙏 🙏

[jewesta]

I hope I am not overstepping. But since the future of ResolutionMenu ist currently unclear I wanted to give some alternatives. This Github issue is what I found when I was looking for a solution to my problem. So I am guessing others will end up here as well.

Here are the alternatives I found:

• BetterDisplay
• SwitchResX

Both are commercial solutions.

HTH!

[robbertkl]

No worries, all good. It's a bit dramatic to say "the future of ResolutionMenu is unclear" 😄; let's be realistic here: this is a tool I've created more than 10 years ago, mostly because I needed it for myself and decided to publish it as open source. Since then, there's hardly any work done on it, and I've stopped using it long ago as well. To be frank, I didn't even know that this still runs on latest macOS / modern machines, let alone people actually using it.

That being said, this is still open source and open for collaboration. If someone could reproduce, debug and fix this, I'm happy to take a look at a PR and upload a new release. As I've said in my message above, I've tried it and it runs just fine on my M3, so I doubt I'll be able to get to the cause of it.