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How I got macOS Sierra Solution to work #35

Open insasquatchcountry opened 7 years ago

insasquatchcountry commented 7 years ago

I tried the recently pushed Sierra solution; ran the script, disabled SIP, restarted and even reinstalled chrome and vlc with no luck. Then I installed mySIMBL. It showed afloat was installed but still no sign of it working. I saw the instructions to "Drag bundles to install to /Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins" navigated there in Finder, move up one directory, and saw SIMBLAgent.app, noticed it wasn't running but mySIMBLAgent.app was and had been added to my user login items.

Best I can tell, the Sierra script didn't add the SIMBLAgent.app to my login items. I uninstalled mySIMBL as it was not serving any purpose, added SIMBLAgent.app to my login items, restarted and now all is right in the world. Hopefully this will help those with whom the script didn't quite fully work.

insasquatchcountry commented 7 years ago

Not really a question as much as a solution to an issue I had with the recent sierra script.

MechMykl commented 7 years ago

Following these steps worked for me, but only temporarily. Once I restarted, even though SIMBLAgent is running in the background, the Afloat options don't appear anymore. May just be intermittent.

Update: Some more info - On 10.12.1, after setting SIMBLAgent to run at login, TotalFinder and my other scripts will hang and need to be killed with a Force Quit. The Afloat options are back, but cause applications like Calendar to bounce forever when opening. Force quitting SIMBLAgent fixes this.

insasquatchcountry commented 7 years ago

Interesting, I don't use TotalFinder but Calendar works fine for me. What's more, I've restarted multiple times with no issue. Did you upgrade from El Capitan or fresh install Sierra? I recently reinstalled after experimenting with rEFInd and duel booting.

MechMykl commented 7 years ago

Upgrade from El Cap. I'm assuming it's a 10.12.1 update issue-- most of my apps will now bounce, need to be force quit, then open successfully, even after SIMBLAgent was prevented from launching at startup.

HatBuddy commented 7 years ago

I can't get mySIMBLAgent to stay checked in Login items... I'll save changes, but after I restart it just goes back to being unchecked

insasquatchcountry commented 7 years ago

mySIMBLAgent was just something I downloaded as a last ditch effort because I don't really know how this all works. It did however lead me to /Library/Application Support/SIMBL were I was able to add the SIMBLAgent.app (not the mySIMBLAgent.app) to my startup items. I ended up deleting mySIMBLAgent entirely.

Lerainx commented 7 years ago

Really did me a favor dude,thx!

viralmutant commented 7 years ago

Ok, so I installed the Sierra solution on my 10.12.3 version It now gives me option to stay afloat in 'iterm2', the only application I care about much.

But now the Finder won't open with the click. I have to do a right click and choose new window. The Finder 'Window' menu also have afloat options which was not the case before Sierra.

Is anyone else seeing similar behaviour ? Looks like it broke the Finder app ?

Tim-Con commented 6 years ago

Hello. I'm new here. I've managed to get Afloat working in some Apps but not Finder. I'm using MacOS 10.13.3. I'm no techi!

Can anyone assist me please?

Thank you.