running a recent version of Plover on macOS 10.9-10.12 (Mavericks, Yosemite, El Capitan, Sierra)

[benoit-pierre]

The version of PyQt5 used by the macOS distribution only support 10.3 (High Sierra) and later. If you try using the DMG on an older version, Plover will start without a GUI.

Possible options to work around the issue:

1. use one of the builds available here
2. try downgrading PyQt5: install the DMG, and run /Applications/Plover.app/Contents/MacOS/Plover -s pip install --user 'PyQt5==5.13.2' 'PyQt5-sip==4.19.19' in a terminal
3. stick to an older version (v4.0.0.dev8+66 or older)