solved Installing Alfred 4 on Ventura doesn't request Automation permission

[proggeo]

Hi team,

I have moved Alfred from my older Mac to a new M1 machine with Ventura installed. Everything works except for Terminal integration, both through `> ` keyword and workflows that attempt to open terminal. At no point does Alfred request Automation permissions and macOS doesn't allow manually adding application to 'Privacy & Security > Automation'. When I open Alfred Preferences > General > Request permissions > Open macOS Automation preferences, all I get is the same 'Privacy & Security > Automation' view where I can't change anything. I do know that other apps manage to request that permission, as Docker succeeded in getting iTerm permission.

On my older Mac, I granted that permission a couple years ago on an older version of macOS

Alfred 4.8 [1312]

macOS Ventura 13.2

Thanks for your help!

Edited February 15, 2023 by proggeo
versions, clarification, screenshot

[Stephen_C]

Generally speaking, permissions in Ventura are rather a mess. Have you tried rebooting and then trying again to grant Alfred permissions?

 

Stephen

[proggeo]

I have tried rebooting and requesting again and that didn't help

[Stephen_C]

Sorry not to have helped - be patient. @vitor will probably come along with a better idea.

 

Stephen

[proggeo]

Thanks, Stephen. I've also tried using tccutil and restarting, it didn't work. It seems `sudo tccutil reset All com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred` doesn't do anything.

[vitor]

How’s your configuration in Alfred Preferences → Features → Terminal?

[proggeo]

Prefix: ">"

 

Application: Custom
 

on alfred_script(q)
	tell application "iTerm"
		activate
		do script q
	end tell
end alfred_script

 

I don't recall adding it, but maybe when I tried making it work years ago, this was needed

[proggeo]

So I just went to https://github.com/vitorgalvao/custom-alfred-iterm-scripts and grabbed the latest script from there. Alfred did ask for the permissions and after I approved, everything works.

Thanks a lot for a quick response and guiding me to the right solution

[drawinblcklines]

how do you run this script? Alfred on Ventura and M2 still doesn't show up in automation for permissions for me. 

[vitor]

You don’t run the script, you add it in the preferences. The linked GitHub page has the exact steps.

[drawinblcklines]

oh gotcha, okay thanks. So just copy and paste it in the preferences? I'm still having trouble getting the ability to add automation permissions on Mac Ventura. Alfred doesn't show up as an option. 

[vitor]

You can’t add automation permissions by yourself, macOS asks for them on demand, as it needs them.

[drawinblcklines]

okay. Also, I think my problem isn't in the automation permissions. for some reason setting up hotkeys for other apps that other apps doesn't register via Ventura but other operating system they do. So I need to investigate why further. Thanks for your help!

Edited May 16, 2023 by drawinblcklines