Amethyst: BSP occasionally has phantom windows taking up spaces

[gprimosch]

Even though I have only one window open, BSP is still allocating half the space on the screen for a nonexistent second window. When I cycle through other layouts, like tall, the problem goes away, but returns when I come back to BSP. The problem goes away for BSP when I relaunch amethyst.

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[ianyh]

Can you try running in log mode and see if you can reproduce?

$ /Applications/Amethyst.app/Contents/MacOS/Amethyst --log

This should output debug data on the bsp tree operations.

[gprimosch]

Just seeing this. Does the log get written to a file or just std out?

[ianyh]

When run that way it writes to stdout.

[gabbard]

@ianyh : I am also seeing this problem. I can consistently recreate it as follows:

1. Have three windows open - IntelliJ IDEA, Chrome, and a terminal.
2. Run Amethyst from the terminal.
3. Change layout to binary space partitioning.
4. From IntelliJ IDEA, make some change and hit Command-K to bring up the floating "Commit Changes" dialog.
5. Close that dialog.
6. There is now an empty "slot" in the BSP layout.

Unfortunately, I don't have time to get this down to a minimal example at the moment. I suspect the only part of the process which is important is the trigger of creating the dialog.

I tried running Amethyst with /Applications/Amethyst.app/Contents/MacOS/Amethyst --log but got no output.

Amethyst version: 0.13.0 (70)
Mac OS X version: 10.14

[gabbard]

I also tried enabling "Show debug info: About Layouts" but still didn't get any debug logging.

[gabbard]

It may also be worth mentioning that if I cycle through other layouts and return to BSP, the phantom window slot is still there.

[ZaymonFC]

This is also happening to me. Windows don't regrow to fill empty space in BSP mode. (Which is a shame because I love BSP mode).

Easily replicating this, starting with a big chrome window and just creating new chrome windows (cmd+n/ctrl+n) then closing them again.

No logging output from /Applications/Amethyst.app/Contents/MacOS/Amethyst --log.

[denniseffing]

Is there any update on this? I just switched from yabai to Amethyst and BSP is the only thing so far that yabai does better than Amethyst.

[ianyh]

Can somebody test this with 0.14.4? I made some changes to the layout and can't reproduce this.

[ZaymonFC]

Works for me! @ianyh 🎉

[ianyh]

Okay, going to call this closed for now.