zsh:1: command not found: yabai

[lukebarton]

I've got yabai and skhd installed via brew and I've got zsh configured by nix w/ home-manager. I'm running the service via skhd --(start|restart|stop)-service.

The plist includes the homebrew prefix (/opt/homebrew/bin:/opt/homebrew/sbin:) in the PATH environment variable and echo $PATH from the shell returns /opt/homebrew/bin:/opt/homebrew/sbin:.. as expected.

Debugging skhd using: alt - p : echo $PATH, the /tmp/skhd_*.out.log does NOT include the homebrew prefix on the path. I don't understand why. It's in the plist for the service and it's also in my shell. What could I be missing that would mean it's not on the PATH of the service's zsh call?

[lukebarton]

I can work around this by alt - p : eval $(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv) && yabai ... but it'd be good to resolve it correctly.

I suspect it has something to do with not-sourcing-.zshrc with a non-interactive shell. But to count against that, even forcing interactive shell with alt - o : /bin/zsh -ic 'echo $PATH' doesn't help (which might not work anyway for other reasons). I'm kinda at a loss. I probably need to spend a weekend learning more about shells and zsh.

[tymscar]

If you're already using homemanager, why not use nix-darwin and let that manage both yabai and skhd for you? That might fix the path issues because you wont depend on homebrew anymore for this.

[lukebarton]

Because package versions.

In the end I’m no longer using Yabai. Instead I’m using AeroSpace, which is more suitable for my use cases.

[avrahamappel]

Noticing a similar issue.

I'm using skhd to set a hotkey to open Alacritty. While the hotkey works, I've noticed that shift-clicking on any urls within the terminal doesn't open the url, instead it errors:

The reason appears to be that Alacritty is calling open, and for some reason that command is not in the $PATH.

I also noticed when setting up the hotkey that it was necessary to call /usr/bin/open instead of plain open to launch the application.

Confirmed using the debug hotkey shown above that skhd's PATH does not contain /usr/bin (or any other system path for that matter, only Nix store paths. Maybe because the daemon is started by home-manager?)

My hotkey looks like this:

# if there's already an instance running, open new window, otherwise start a new instance
ctrl + cmd - return : /nix/store/xx9zzx3a9v96yxkbg5b85yb1m7x69gl5-alacritty-local/bin/alacritty msg create-window 2>&1 || /usr/bin/open -a /nix/store/xx9zzx3a9v96yxkbg5b85yb1m7x69gl5-alacritty-local/Applications/Alacritty.app

[avrahamappel]

Turned out my issue was that the PATH key of skhd's plist file did not include any system paths. Reran skhd --uninstall-service; skhd --install-service and all's well