Ardour 7.2.0 sometimes not reacting to mouse clicks in OSX

Installation & Configuration Mac OS X
#1

The problem seems to have started with Ardour 7.2.0. Sometimes Ardour UI doesn’t react to mouse clicks. I am under the impression that sometimes it registers clicks in a wrong window. For example, I’d open the About dialog and click “Close”, but the dialog wouldn’t close. Instead, one of the existing regions would get highlighted in red.

Here’s a video showing an example of this: https://photos.app.goo.gl/vvsJUacUFYWwHvav6

It’s not reproducible every time. Sometimes I need to click the same element a couple times. Sometimes it’s stuck from the beginning.

Has anyone else seen this?

#2

I am having similar issues on 7.2 with OSX.

When adding a new plugin, right click does nothing. Sometimes I just wait a few minutes and it starts working. Other times, I can open things but not close them (like the preferences window).

One thing that seems consistent is when I click the play loop button, it does not light up. It either does nothing, or it plays but without looping.

#3

I’ve always had an issue with (the Linux version) where if you right click in a mixer channel to add a plugin, the context menu appears and you can select and add a plugin from the options presented, but if you then right click again to add another plug-in, nothing happens and you have to right click a third time to get the menu back again. Not sure if that’s related (or even if its intentional behaviour)

#4

I’m wondering, is there a way to download an older version of Ardour? The download page only contains the current version. Unfortunately I can’t work with the current version because of the problem I described.

#5

Are you running macOS Ventura (13.x)?

Looks like GTK has some issues there:

see also 0009187: Ardour doesn't react to mouse clicks about 50% of the time - MantisBT

#6

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