kalkman-code/beamer v1.5.17

Beamer 1.5.17

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Beamer 1.5.17 is a small patch with three fixes, all from user reports: keypad keys, Mac dead-key accents, and a memory leak on the Mac. Your pairings and settings carry over.

Downloads

• macOS 13 or later, Apple silicon and Intel: Beamer-1.5.17.dmg, a universal app signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarised by Apple.
• Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit: Beamer-Setup-1.5.17.exe, signed with a Certum code-signing certificate. Windows may still say "Windows protected your PC" the first time. If it does, choose More info, then Run anyway.
• Windows, no installer: Beamer-Portable-1.5.17-windows-x64.zip. Extract the folder and run Beamer without an installer or administrator rights, as described in the 1.5.10 release notes.
• Linux, 64-bit x86 and arm64: Beamer-1.5.17-x86_64.flatpak or Beamer-1.5.17-aarch64.flatpak, or run flatpak update if you installed from the Kalkman Code Flatpak repository.

Installing and setting up is the same as in the 1.5.3 release notes.

Fixed

• Keypad keys now reach the other machine as keypad keys. Before, the keypad digits, the operators and keypad Enter arrived as the number row and the main Enter key, so apps with keypad shortcuts, such as Blender and SolidWorks, could not tell them apart. The fix covers sending and receiving on Mac, Windows and Linux (X11 and Wayland). (#56)
• Mac: when a Mac's keyboard controls another machine, an accent from a dead key, such as ´ then e for é, no longer drops when you pause between the two keys. Thanks to @psantalla for the diagnosis. (#54)
• Mac: Beamer no longer uses more and more memory while you move the mouse or type. Every input event that passed through Beamer stayed in memory, so a Mac that ran Beamer for days could reach several gigabytes. Thanks to @prioneto for finding the cause. (#57)

Update every machine to 1.5.17. A machine on 1.5.16 ignores keypad keys that a 1.5.17 machine sends, so keypad keys do nothing there until it is updated too.

Everything from 1.5.16 is still included.

SHA-256 checksums

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