ENTER doesn't work in menus on Mac

Question

When using ENTER on a menu item on Mac, the menu disappears and the item doesn't run. ENTER has the same effect as ESC.

The ENTER key works fine in other apps' menus.

Answer 1

Thank you very much for pointing us to this problem.

Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do about it: this is a problem in Java, please see Enter key does not perform action associated with menu item using ScreenMenuBar.

The only "workaround" is running yEd on Java 8. However, Java 8 has severe drawbacks, most notably

• officially, it supports macOS up to 10.14 (Mojave) only, and
• it does not support HDPI configurations (which includes Retina displays).

If Java 8 is an option for you nevertheless, you can get a yEd macOS disk image with Java 8 from the yEd download page.

Comments

Thanks. Java 8 is not an option for me, but I'm glad the issue has been noted. I believe this issue is much older than August 2021, I'm surprised it was only reported then.