Fails to get active window on macOS

[VirenMohindra]

Mac OSX 10.12.6 Sierra, running all modules + aw-watcher-spotify + aw-watcher-web
Python 3.6.3 :: Anaconda, Inc.

I added the last heartbeat for debugging purposes

Inserted:{'id': 1148, 'timestamp': datetime.datetime(2018, 9, 11, 6, 15, 45, 412000, tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc), 'duration': datetime.timedelta(0), 'data': {'url': 'https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-better-history/aadbaagbanfijdnflkhepgjmhlpppbad', 'title': 'Chrome Better History - Chrome Web Store', 'audible': False, 'incognito': False}}  (aw_datastore.datastore.Bucket:120)
/Documents/activitywatch/aw_watcher_window/printAppTitle.scpt: execution error: System Events got an error: Can’t get application process 1 whose frontmost = true. Invalid index. (-1719)
2018-09-11 14:26:19 [ERROR]: Exception thrown while trying to get active window: list index out of range  (aw_watcher_window.main:68)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "aw_watcher_window/main.py", line 65, in heartbeat_loop
  File "aw_watcher_window/lib.py", line 46, in get_current_window
  File "aw_watcher_window/lib.py", line 23, in get_current_window_macos
  File "aw_watcher_window/macos.py", line 17, in getTitle
IndexError: list index out of range
/Users/virenmohindra/Documents/activitywatch/aw_watcher_window/printAppTitle.scpt: execution error: System Events got an error: Can’t get application process 1 whose frontmost = true. Invalid index. (-1719)
2018-09-11 15:10:08 [ERROR]: Exception thrown while trying to get active window: list index out of range  (aw_watcher_window.main:68)

and then the same error keeps on getting repeated --

../Documents/activitywatch/aw_watcher_window/printAppTitle.scpt: execution error: sh: -c: lish: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file (2)
2018-09-11 22:49:23 [ERROR]: Exception thrown while trying to get active window: list index out of range  (aw_watcher_window.main:68)

Please let me know if you need the log files

[ErikBjare]

I don't see a crash, do you mean that aw-watcher-window isn't logging properly? Have you given the permission needed on macOS? There should have been a prompt when you first started aw-qt, has been what I've heard anyway (we have done terribly little hallway testing with macOS).

[VirenMohindra]

Sorry, I meant logging. I saw the traceback and IndexError: list index out of range errors and assumed a crash.

I saw and received the prompt and accepted it - I've allowed for accessibility permissions for the terminal.

[ErikBjare]

That's weird then, can you try running the ./activitywatch/aw_watcher_window/printAppTitle.scpt yourself from the terminal and paste some output for me?

[ErikBjare]

Full logfiles would also be nice (we don't see many for macOS). Make sure there's nothing sensitive in there (and tell us if there is).

[VirenMohindra]

Not able to run ./, I get a permission denied - I'll have to use osascript, not sure if thats going to be a problem.

When running Mac$ osascript printAppTitle.scpt
I get
"Terminal","aw_watcher_window — -bash — 92×62"

Also started receiving this error on refreshing from the dashboard -

2018-09-12 19:35:12 [WARNING]: Gap was of negative duration (-0.003s). This error will only show once per batch.  (aw_transform.flood:28)
2018-09-12 19:35:12 [WARNING]: Gap was of negative duration (-0.003s). This error will only show once per batch.  (aw_transform.flood:28)
2018-09-12 19:35:12 [WARNING]: Gap was of negative duration (-0.003s). This error will only show once per batch.  (aw_transform.flood:28)
2018-09-12 19:35:22 [WARNING]: Gap was of negative duration (-203.199987s). This error will only show once per batch.  (aw_transform.flood:28)
2018-09-12 19:35:22 [WARNING]: Gap was of negative duration (-0.003s). This error will only show once per batch.  (aw_transform.flood:28)
2018-09-12 19:35:22 [WARNING]: Gap was of negative duration (-0.003s). This error will only show once per batch.  (aw_transform.flood:28)
2018-09-12 19:35:22 [WARNING]: Gap was of negative duration (-0.003s). This error will only show once per batch.  (aw_transform.flood:28)

[VirenMohindra]

Logs, from ~/Library/Logs/activitywatch/ - https://www.dropbox.com/s/hf2z3q75urba1lp/activitywatch.zip?dl=0

Didn't have to change much, except a few urls, the username, and my hostname which I purged from the log files.

Please let me know if you need anything else.

[johan-bjareholt]

@VirenMohindra Sorry but the logs are not enough, you have to capture stdout/stderr aswell (such as starting it with "aw-watcher-window &> ~/aw-watcher-window.log" or just starting it in the terminal and copying the output. Without stdout/stderr we don't get the actual tracebacks which are essential for crashes as well as additional info of some other errors i saw in your aw-watcher-window logs.

EDIT: Ah. just saw this #230

[VirenMohindra]

Started 2018-09-12 21:32:27, here is the resulting output after creating a new file aw_window.log and running $aw-qt/ and $./aw-watcher-window &>aw_window.log in two separate windows:

2018-09-12 21:31:51 [INFO ]: aw-watcher-window started  (aw_watcher_window.main:42)
2018-09-12 21:31:52 [WARNING]: Not connected to server, 0 requests in queue  (aw_client.client:366)
2018-09-12 21:32:02 [WARNING]: Not connected to server, 2 requests in queue  (aw_client.client:366)
2018-09-12 21:32:12 [WARNING]: Not connected to server, 5 requests in queue  (aw_client.client:366)
2018-09-12 21:32:22 [WARNING]: Not connected to server, 7 requests in queue  (aw_client.client:366)
2018-09-12 21:32:32 [INFO ]: Connection to aw-server established by aw-watcher-window  (aw_client.client:334)
osascript: couldn't save changes to script /Applications/activitywatch/aw_watcher_window/printAppTitle.scpt: permissions error (on file open)

Read: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/164379 ?

[Patrick3131]

I have the same issue, is there already a solution for it? I am using macOS Mojave and ActivityWatch version: v0.8.0b7

I get unknown activity data.

Logs:
Log:
2018-11-29 20:46:07 [INFO ]: Connection to aw-server established by aw-watcher-window (aw_client.client:344)
2018-11-30 10:36:46 [ERROR]: Exception thrown while trying to get active window: list index out of range (aw_watcher_window.main:68)
2018-11-30 10:36:47 [ERROR]: Exception thrown while trying to get active window: list index out of range (aw_watcher_window.main:68)
2018-11-30 10:36:48 [ERROR]: Exception thrown while trying to get active window: list index out of range (aw_watcher_window.main:68)
2018-11-30 10:36:49 [ERROR]: Exception thrown while trying to get active window: list index out of range (aw_watcher_window.main:68)
2018-11-30 10:36:50 [ERROR]: Exception thrown while trying to get active window: list index out of range (aw_watcher_window.main:68)

osascript: /Users/patrick/Downloads/activitywatch/aw_watcher_window/printAppTitle.scpt: No such file or directory
2018-11-30 11:20:05 [ERROR]: Exception thrown while trying to get active window: list index out of range (aw_watcher_window.main:68)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "aw_watcher_window/main.py", line 65, in heartbeat_loop
File "aw_watcher_window/lib.py", line 46, in get_current_window
File "aw_watcher_window/lib.py", line 23, in get_current_window_macos
File "aw_watcher_window/macos.py", line 17, in getTitle
IndexError: list index out of range