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Yabai Won't Ignore Certain Apps #2553

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Adag96 opened this issue Feb 15, 2025 · 1 comment
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Yabai Won't Ignore Certain Apps #2553

Adag96 opened this issue Feb 15, 2025 · 1 comment

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@Adag96
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Adag96 commented Feb 15, 2025

I can't for the life of me get Yabai to ignore specific apps. Some work fine, others seem to resist this rule.

Examples of ones that work fine for me:
yabai -m rule --add app='^System Settings$' manage=off
yabai -m rule --add app='^Calculator$' manage=off

But the following ones do not work, no matter what I do:
yabai -m rule --add app='^Blitzit$' manage=off
yabai -m rule --add app='^Live$' manage=off

I've verified the app names that are running via query in terminal. Maybe this is a matter of expectations? What exactly is 'manage=off' supposed to be doing? My assumption is that toggling Yabai modes would not affect the unmanaged apps, and that resizing unmanaged apps should also not influence other tiled windows... But neither of those is true for these two apps.

Any ideas?

@Bellavene
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Bellavene commented Feb 15, 2025

You can try to use different methods telling which window to ignore. #2046
Here are some examples

yabai -m rule --add \
         app="^Whatever.*$" \
         role="AXLayoutArea" \
         subrole="AXFloatingWindow" \
         manage=off
yabai -m rule --add \
         title="Whatever" \
         manage=off

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