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Sep 03, 2021

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One of my favorite small utilities for my Mac is Blotter, by Delaware-based Wireload. It's delightfully simple and elegant, putting your calendar and reminders on your Desktop.

Unfortunately, it also stopped working a few MacOS versions ago, and the app hasn't been updated since October 2019.

Not surprisingly, the Apple App Store reviews have become universally bad as a result.

Wireload's support forum is pretty much full of complaints from others who are disappointed Blotter stopped working for them.

The last time I went looking for an update, however, I noticed that someone had found a fix to get Blotter working again. It's not an official fix, and involves messing with Terminal commands, but it works.

Even though I'm running the next version of MacOS -- MacOS 12 Monterey in beta -- Blotter is happily humming away on my MacBook Pro 16" desktop. I'm elated.

Here's the fix:

  1. Launch Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities).

2. Copy the following and paste it into Terminal, and press Enter:

defaults write net.wireload.blotter.mac NSGraphicsContextAllowOverRestore -bool YES

3. Then, copy the following and press Enter:

defaults write net.wireload.blotter.mac NSViewAllowsRootLayerBacking -bool NO

And that's it. You may have to restart your Mac and re-launch Blotter.

Thanks to Gfidias in the Wireload forums and GerryWilliamson in the App Store!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/blotter/id406580224?mt=12


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