What is the problem that the 'orange dots' that appear on the screen in macOS Monterey get in the way?
As a privacy feature added in macOS Monterey, when you launch an app that accesses your audio device, you'll see an orange indicator in the menu bar. The IT news site cdm claims that this feature needs to be fixed.
Apple added an orange dot that's a showstopper for live visuals --and it needs a fix --CDM Create Digital Music
To prevent the software from hijacking the camera or audio input and recording it on its own, macOS Monterey will display an orange dot as an indicator when recording is active, as shown below. However, this orange dot appears not only on the main display, but also on external output displays such as projectors and external monitors. Therefore, it gets in the way at live events.
It is possible to hide the menu bar of the external output display, but the orange dot will continue to be displayed. Clicking the orange dot on the main display will show information about the app accessing the sound device, but on the external output display, clicking the orange dot will not show the information.
For example, when performing video jockey using a MacBook Pro, the video played on the MacBook Pro is output externally to the monitor at the live venue, but with macOS Monterey, the video will always have orange dots, so the artist It can also hinder your performance.
Some users have said that it is annoying when this orange dot is displayed.
I started recording for my video and I saw this amazing new feature of macOS Monterey where this orange dot appears when the system uses microphone and it's annoying pic.twitter.com/8ojc4iBnQ4
— Codecat15 ???? (@ codecat15) November 4, 2021
Oh no. A tiny orange dot warning that the microphone is active absolute ruins MacOS. Here's an illustration, the dot marked with an arrow because it's so easy to overlook. Pic.twitter.com/qUjL6JbOtW
— Alan De Smet (@AlanDeSmet) December 20, 2021
Therefore, Mr. Sidney Sa Martin, a programmer who also improvises images and laser effects according to the performance of musicians and DJs at live events, has specified a specification that the orange dot is forcibly displayed. An unofficial patch 'undot' to fix is available on GitHub.
GitHub-s4y / undot
https://github.com/s4y/undot
However, be aware that undot may not work depending on the macOS Monterey update. 'Avoiding intended security and privacy measures can violate Apple's developer rules, so we can't openly recommend undot,' said cdm. If you need to show on a MacBook Pro or something, it's easy to imagine that the orange dot should be removed. I'm hoping to fix it now and get an official Apple patch soon. ' Said.
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