It used to work intermittently, but now it’s stopped working completely. Every time, I have to use the keyboard shortcut. I’ve restarted Obsidian and PopClip.
Is this a known issue with Obsidian, or other electron apps?
Using Monterey on an M1 MacBook Air. PopClip 2022. Obsidian is up-to-date.
It actually works OK for me in Obsidian but I do hear that some are having trouble with Electron apps.
You could provide a little data to help shed light on it by Option-clicking the PopClip menu bar icon, which will reveal a Debug window. When you select text in Obsidian, what appears in the debug console? You could paste a sample here (click Pause in the debug console to allow copying).
Alt-tabbing, or even quitting and restarting obsidian, didn’t help.
I’ve also noticed it’s working intermittently in Drafts. Here’s is the debug, with one event where it didn’t work, followed by another event that did work.
Looks like the “08:58:43.5 * Excluded by initial (pre-axapi) policy check (probe+require-beam)” is the issue?
It looks like it’s failing when the cursor is an arrow and succeeding when it is a beam/caret shape.
It does this because it uses the cursor shape as a heuristic to help work out if the user is actually selecting text. If the cursor is an arrow, it assumes the mouse movement is for something else.
However, I think this needs to become more nuanced – I will be working on this soon.