LiveText - quick toggle for macOS 12 Monterey LiveText feature

[luckman212]

It annoyed me that LiveText activated when I didn't want it (e.g. when trying to draw a marquee in Preview.app) so I came up with this quick little toggler for the feature. Only tested on macOS 12.0.1 on an M1 Mac Mini. Please report any problems!

 

https://github.com/luckman212/alfredworkflows/blob/master/LiveText.alfredworkflow

 

 

[lamhoangtung]

Hi, thanks for making this. I've been trying it on my MBA M1 but it failed to works. Here is some log:

 

[21:20:11.708] Logging Started...

[21:20:17.856] LiveText[Script Filter] Queuing argument '(null)'

[21:20:17.928] LiveText[Script Filter] Script with argv '(null)' finished

[21:20:17.932] STDERR: LiveText[Script Filter] 2021-10-30 21:20:17.861 defaults[3441:72069]

The domain/default pair of (kCFPreferencesAnyApplication, AppleLiveTextEnabled) does not exist

[21:20:17.932] LiveText[Script Filter] {

  "items": [

    {

      "title": "error getting status of LiveText",

      "subtitle": "(please check System Preferences > Language or try again later)",

      "arg": "",

      "valid": "false",

    }

  ]

}

 

Can you give me some help here ^^

[luckman212]

@lamhoangtung You're running macOS 12 right?

[lamhoangtung]

Sure @luckman212. I'm running macOS 12.0.1

[luckman212]

@lamhoangtung I uploaded a new version of the workflow (1.0.1). Please give it a try!

[lamhoangtung]

Sorry for the late reply @luckman212. I tried version 1.0.1 and it work perfectly. Thanks ^^

[luckman212]

Excellent! Glad to hear.