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#2530·espanso

Epanso 2.2.7 / 2.3.0 not working on macOS Tahoe 26.0.1

Author: barabaszCreated Oct 11, 2025Updated Sep 13, 2026
LabelsenhancementMacOS

Description

With 2.2.7 there is no Espanso icon in the status bar. I can launch the search bar, though.

With 2.3.0 there is "Enable Accessibility" infinitive loop.

I have the same issue on all my macs.

I can see two kinds of errors in the log:

23:41:56 [worker(2258)] [INFO] secure input has been acquired, preventing espanso from working correctly. Our guess is that this is caused by 'loginwindow', but there are cases in which the detection is unreliable. Full path: /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow

or

[service(6676)] [INFO] kdotool missing or not available for the current wayland DE.

I believe this is related to https://github.com/espanso/espanso/issues/2509 which was closed 5 days ago - but the issue wasn't fix.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Downloading latest binary from official website or installing via brew install espanso
  2. Trying to run Espanso
  3. Expanding not working / no Espanso icon in status bar

Expected behavior

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Screenshots

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Logs

22:49:15 [worker(2258)] [INFO] secure input has been disabled
23:41:56 [worker(2258)] [INFO] secure input has been acquired, preventing espanso from working correctly. Our guess is that this is caused by 'loginwindow', but there are cases in which the detection is unreliable. Full path: /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow
23:41:57 [worker(2258)] [INFO] secure input has been disabled
23:45:49 [worker(2258)] [INFO] engine eventloop has terminated, propagating exit event...
23:45:49 [worker(2258)] [INFO] waiting for engine exit mode...
23:45:49 [worker(2258)] [INFO] exiting worker (to be restarted)
23:45:49 [daemon(1965)] [INFO] worker requested a restart, spawning a new one...
23:45:49 [daemon(1965)] [INFO] spawning the worker process...
23:45:50 [worker(4420)] [INFO] reading configs from: "/Users/barabasz/.config/espanso"
23:45:50 [worker(4420)] [INFO] reading packages from: "/Users/barabasz/.config/espanso/match/packages"
23:45:50 [worker(4420)] [INFO] using runtime dir: "/Users/barabasz/Library/Caches/espanso"
23:45:50 [worker(4420)] [INFO] system info: Darwin v26.0.1 - kernel: 25.0.0
23:45:50 [worker(4420)] [INFO] kdotool missing or not available for the current wayland DE.
23:45:50 [worker(4420)] [INFO] using CocoaAppInfoProvider
23:45:50 [worker(4420)] [INFO] using CocoaSource
23:45:50 [worker(4420)] [INFO] binded to IPC unix socket: /Users/barabasz/Library/Caches/espanso/espansoworkerv2.sock
23:45:50 [worker(4420)] [INFO] monitoring the status of the daemon process
23:45:50 [worker(4420)] [INFO] monitoring the status of secure input
23:45:50 [worker(4420)] [INFO] using MacInjector
23:45:50 [worker(4420)] [INFO] using CocoaClipboard
23:46:38 [worker(4420)] [INFO] engine eventloop has terminated, propagating exit event...
23:46:38 [worker(4420)] [INFO] waiting for engine exit mode...
23:46:38 [worker(4420)] [INFO] exiting worker process and daemon...
23:46:38 [daemon(1965)] [INFO] worker requested a general exit, quitting the daemon

Your environment

  • Operating system: macOS Tahoe 26.0.1
  • Espanso version 2.2.7 or 2.3.0 (downloaded binary)

Self-service

  • I'd be willing to fix this bug myself.

Source: espanso/espanso

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