Yabai: Tooltips in Chrome & Safari cause flicker and re-layout

[brentd]

I apologize if this has been covered elsewhere, but I haven't been able to find or come up with a solution yet.

When hovering a link that shows a tooltip in Chrome/Safari, on a space using yabai -m config layout bsp, yabai seems to be trying to fit the tooltip in a new split, causing flicker.

• yabai-v2.3.0
• I have a very simple config file here
• I tried adding yabai -m rule --add title="^$" manage=off hoping it would catch the (presumably unnamed) window, but no
• I tried running yabai -m query --windows --space 1 to catch any info at all about the tooltip window but have been unsuccessful :( attaching the query of just the two windows I have open though
• I have not disabled SIP, hoping I could get by without the advanced features, could have something to do with it?

yabai -m query --windows --space 1
[{
    "id":17925,
    "pid":34814,
    "app":"iTerm2",
    "title":"~",
    "frame":{
        "x":13.0000,
        "y":35.0000,
        "w":1260.0000,
        "h":1392.0000
    },
    "level":0,
    "role":"AXWindow",
    "subrole":"AXStandardWindow",
    "movable":1,
    "resizable":1,
    "display":1,
    "space":1,
    "visible":1,
    "focused":1,
    "split":"vertical",
    "floating":0,
    "sticky":0,
    "topmost":0,
    "border":1,
    "shadow":1,
    "zoom-parent":0,
    "zoom-fullscreen":0,
    "native-fullscreen":0
},{
    "id":17088,
    "pid":59178,
    "app":"Google Chrome",
    "title":"koekeishiya/yabai: A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning - Google Chrome",
    "frame":{
        "x":1287.0000,
        "y":35.0000,
        "w":1260.0000,
        "h":1392.0000
    },
    "level":0,
    "role":"AXWindow",
    "subrole":"AXStandardWindow",
    "movable":1,
    "resizable":1,
    "display":1,
    "space":1,
    "visible":1,
    "focused":0,
    "split":"vertical",
    "floating":0,
    "sticky":0,
    "topmost":0,
    "border":1,
    "shadow":1,
    "zoom-parent":0,
    "zoom-fullscreen":0,
    "native-fullscreen":0
}]

[brentd]

Further testing seems to suggest that these two lines in my config is the culprit:

yabai -m rule --add app=".*" manage=off
yabai -m rule --add app="^(Google Chrome|Safari|Brave|Slack|iTerm2|Finder)$" manage=on

More to the point: marking everything as manage=off, followed by specifically allowing some apps, seems to disrupt some of the default ignoring rules yabai already sets for windows like tooltips.

Is there another way I should be saying "I only want to manage apps with these names"?

[koekeishiya]

You can have a single rule that makes everything float by default, using manage=off

Then subscribe to application_launched and window_created signal to unfloat a window that matches your criteria.

The manage=on part of the rules system is primarily meant to allow a user to force a window to be treated as a proper window, because some applications misreport their window role.

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On 24 Feb 2020, at 04:38, Brent Dillingham [e-mail] wrote:



Further testing seems to suggest that these two lines in my config is the culprit:

yabai -m rule --add app=".*" manage=off
yabai -m rule --add app="^(Google Chrome|Safari|Brave|Slack|iTerm2|Finder)$" manage=on

More to the point: marking everything as manage=off, followed by specifically allowing some apps, seems to disrupt some of the default ignoring rules yabai already sets for windows like tooltips.

Is there another way I should be saying "I only want to manage apps with these names"?

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[koekeishiya]

In the latest version (2.4.0) and on the master branch, exclusion has been implemented (#173), and you can use the following rule:

yabai -m rule --add app!="^(Google Chrome|Safari|Brave|Slack|iTerm2|Finder)$" manage=off

[brentd]

@koekeishiya incredible! I can't wait to try it out. Thanks so much.