Yabai: Focusing desktop not working on Big Sur

[capaldo]

Attempting to focus a desktop via yabai -m window --space 2 does not work. I tried running sudo yabai --load-sa but the issue persists.

Edit: To add, window shadows and opacity are also not working.

[marcusmyers]

When running the sudo yabai --load-sa I get the following error:

could not retrieve task port for pid: 3849
yabai: scripting-addition failed to inject payload into Dock.app!

@capaldo Is that what you receive as well?

[SxC97]

I get the following error when running sudo yabai --load-sa

could not load bootstrap object file
yabai: scripting-addition failed to inject payload into Dock.app!

[chilledsaint0716]

Attempting to focus a desktop via yabai -m space --focus 3 does not work either.
I got the following error:
cannot focus space due to an error with the scripting-addition.

[koekeishiya]

Make sure sip is (partially) disabled, and reinstall the scripting-addition. check the wiki for installation instructions.

[chilledsaint0716]

sudo yabai --uninstall-sa
sudo yabai --install-sa
sudo yabai --load-sa

fixed, thx bro.

[zakroma]

Reinstalling and reloading SA doesn't work for me. It does work until the reboot/logout. Then it doesnt work, trying the sudo yabai --load-sa results in "Payload doesn't support this macOS version!"

Reinstalling yabai and skhd does nothing too.

Update:
For some reason tail -f /usr/local/var/log/yabai/yabai.err.log showed that there was an error in my .yabairc:
/Users/zakroma/.yabairc: line 1: !/usr/bin/env: No such file or directory

changing !/usr/bin/env sh --> #!/usr/bin/env zsh
has completely fixed all the problems!

[capaldo]

Reinstalling and reloading SA doesn't work for me. It does work until the reboot/logout. Then it doesnt work, trying the sudo yabai --load-sa results in "Payload doesn't support this macOS version!"

Reinstalling yabai and skhd does nothing too.

Update:
For some reason tail -f /usr/local/var/log/yabai/yabai.err.log showed that there was an error in my .yabairc:
/Users/zakroma/.yabairc: line 1: !/usr/bin/env: No such file or directory

changing !/usr/bin/env sh --> !/usr/bin/env zsh
has completely fixed all the problems!

This worked. Thank you @koekeishiya and @zakroma.

[24unix]

@capaldo That seems strange.

This ist a fresh Big Sur upgrade:
`╰─➤ file /bin/sh

/bin/sh: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures: [x86_64:Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64] [arm64e:Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64e]

/bin/sh (for architecture x86_64): Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
/bin/sh (for architecture arm64e): Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64e

╰─➤ /usr/bin/env sh

sh-3.2$
`
However, your shebang (#!) is missing the hash sign.

[capaldo]

@capaldo That seems strange.

This ist a fresh Big Sur upgrade:

`╰─➤ file /bin/sh

/bin/sh: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures: [x86_64:Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64] [arm64e:Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64e]

/bin/sh (for architecture x86_64): Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64

/bin/sh (for architecture arm64e): Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64e

╰─➤ /usr/bin/env sh

sh-3.2$

`

However, your shebang (#!) is missing the hash sign.

I added it with a hash sign.

[24unix]

What gives "file /bin/sh" and "/usr/bin/env sh"?

[zakroma]

What gives "file /bin/sh" and "/usr/bin/env sh"?

Not sure I got what you're asking, but I've changed mine to #!/bin/zsh as using the env tool resulted in errors.

[24unix]

Try to execute whats inside the quotes, as mine is working with #!/usr/bin/env sh

[zakroma]

Try to execute whats inside the quotes, as mine is working with #!/usr/bin/env sh

Results in the same output that you mentioned above.

Adding a proper shebang actually does fix the problem.

[24unix]

👍