MacKeyServer EACCES

[tisonkun]

const { GlobalKeyboardListener } = require('node-global-key-listener')
const v = new GlobalKeyboardListener()

v.addListener(function (e, down) {
    if (e.state === 'DOWN') {
      let metaKey = Object.entries(down)
        .filter(([key, value]) => value === true && key.length > 1 && !/LOCK/.test(key))
        .map(([key, value]) => key);
  
      if (e.name.length === 1) metaKey.push(e.name);
      metaKey = metaKey.join('+');
      console.log(`${metaKey}`);
    }
  })

prints

node:events:497
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

Error: spawn /Users/tison/Brittani/greptime-demo-scene/keyboard-monitor/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/node-global-key-listener/bin/MacKeyServer EACCES
    at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:286:19)
    at onErrorNT (node:internal/child_process:484:16)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:82:21)
Emitted 'error' event on ChildProcess instance at:
    at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:292:12)
    at onErrorNT (node:internal/child_process:484:16)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:82:21) {
  errno: -13,
  code: 'EACCES',
  syscall: 'spawn /Users/tison/Brittani/greptime-demo-scene/keyboard-monitor/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/node-global-key-listener/bin/MacKeyServer',
  path: '/Users/tison/Brittani/greptime-demo-scene/keyboard-monitor/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/node-global-key-listener/bin/MacKeyServer',
  spawnargs: []
}

Node.js v21.6.1

Mac Ventura 13.4:

Darwin tisondeMacBook-Pro.local 22.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 22.5.0: Mon Apr 24 20:53:19 PDT 2023; root:xnu-8796.121.2~5/RELEASE_ARM64_T6020 arm64

[sancarn]

Can you test version 0.1.1 and see if you still get the same issue? Not sure why this would be throwing but could be because of the recent PR...

[tisonkun]

@sancarn Thanks for your suggestion! Work for me when switch to 0.1.1.

0.2.0 throws the exception above.

[tisonkun]

BTW, after switching to 0.1.1, I found a similar "bug" like moses-palmer/pynput#589:

LEFT META DOWN [kVK_Command] (down: LEFT META,true)
RIGHT META DOWN [kVK_RightCommand] (down: LEFT META,true,RIGHT META,true)
RIGHT META DOWN [kVK_RightCommand] (down: LEFT META,true,RIGHT META,true)
LEFT META UP   [kVK_Command] (down: LEFT META,false,RIGHT META,true)

I actually press and release RIGHT META with LEFT META pressed.

Since it's the same for two projects, I suspect that it's a Mac issue though ...

Code snippet:

v.addListener(function (e, down) {
  console.log(
      `${e.name} ${e.state == "DOWN" ? "DOWN" : "UP  "} [${e.rawKey._nameRaw}] (down: ${Object.entries(down)})`
  );
});

[sancarn]

@sancarn Thanks for your suggestion! Work for me when switch to 0.1.1.

0.2.0 throws the exception above.

Hmm well that's good to know at aleast... So there may have been an issue with #31 😅 Serves me right for just committing it without testing 👀

[olan-go2]

Any solution to this one?

[sancarn]

Happy to accept PRs on this. Bare in mind neither of the maintainers are paid for maintaining this library, nor do we use it anymore.