afloat does not work on EI Capitan

[auralia22]

Hi,

I upgraded from Yosemite to EI Capitan.
Before upgrade, afloat worked well using EasySimbl.

After upgrade, I removed EasySimbl and run the following command on terminal.

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rwu823/aflot/master/install.sh | sh

But afloat does not work.

Could you help me?

Thanks,
Ross

[rwu823]

Hi Ross

Do you try reboot or reopen app after script?

[auralia22]

Yes I tried reboot and reopen.

[auralia22]

Hi,

I found one thing.

Afloat works well on new installed application after I install it.
But it does not work on Safari or Chrome.

Thanks,
Ross

[rwu823]

@auralia22 Hi Ross

It's so strange. May you help me try to reinstall the Chrome or some apps?

[auralia22]

Thanks, it works on chrome.

But it does not work on mac default apps - terminal, safari, quicktime viewer, etc

Thanks,
Ross

[rwu823]

I think this problem is Afloat original doesn't full support for each app. I will research for other alternative.

[auralia22]

Thank you!

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Rocky Wu [email protected] wrote:

I think this problem is Afloat original doesn't full support for each
app. I will research for other alternative .

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[sanjeevverma1]

Afloat does not work on any native OSX apps. This is how it's always been, as I understand it. However, Afloat will work perfectly well on any other third-party app (Spotify, Chrome, Omnifocus, etc.), even if you are running the latest beta of El Capitan. Thanks @rwu823 !

[rwu823]

@sanjeevverma1 Thanks for the detail explain 👍

[bleepktch]

I'm pretty positive that Afloat used to work on native OS X apps. I used to do some tricky video stuff with my desktop using it where I had a fullscreen screen cap window open and I would use keep afloat on the Finder which would make these really trippy visuals with the finder and desktop feeding back into it self into infinity. I have a video of it somewhere. Will post a link if I can find it

[mastergberry]

Can confirm this. Just tried running it on 10.11.2 and it's not working either. I used to use this with Facetime all the time back on 10.9.3 It was the primary purpose for me. I had to upgrade my mac recently to 10.11.2 because I had to send it off to Apple Support for a repair.

[bleepktch]

Didn't there also used to be an option to keep things in the background? I might be imagining that one.

[bleepktch]

Also interestingly Alfoat does work with Apple apps that are not natively installed, eg. Xcode

[MoOx]

Not working for me. It's probably related to the system integrity shit.

[MoOx]

That might help norio-nomura/EasySIMBL#26 (comment)

[brunorsini]

Hi everyone,

On El Capitan Afloat is working great for me on some apps: VLC, iTerm, Sublime Text, etc.

It's not working on Apple apps (eg, Facetime... huge bummer on that one!) but I guess that's normal.

However, I'd love it to work on Chrome and Spotify and some people here seem to have accomplished this. Can you please confirm / share any tips you might have that made it work on those two apps? I don't have permission to install EasySIMBL on this machine but wonder if that's related at all...

[carconper]

Hello,

First of all thanks for the contribution.
Sadly I have not been able to make it work with 10.11.3. I am not able to see the options on the Windows menu not for the native Apple apps nor for the rest of 3rd party applications.

I have gone through the issues posted here and checked tried most of the things. The only thing i haven't done yet is disabling SIP as I have read it doest work either.

Is there anything else I can try?

If not, can you share the instructions to cleanly and completely uninstall everything that the scripts installs?

Thanks a lot for your time and effort.

[arvindstutzen]

it will be great if Afloat work for Facetime

[sanjeevverma1]

Disable SIP. Add Afloat bundle to plugins and apps support folder in user library. This should work for all native OSX apps.

Sanjeev Verma

[arvindstutzen]

@sanjeevverma1 Forgot to mention was in Mac OSX Yosemite 10.10 is there any way to work in it

[lionel-]

Just to confirm that this works perfectly:

• disabling SIP
• installing afloat again with @rwu823's great script
• and restarting the Apple applications.

Works with Safari at least.

[brunorsini]

Does anyone please know whether disabling SIP has any meaningful side
effects?

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 8:32 AM, Lionel Henry [email protected]
wrote:

Just to confirm that this works perfectly:

• disabling SIP
• installing afloat again with @rwu823 https://github.com/rwu823's
  great script
• and restarting the Apple applications.

Works with Safari at least.

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[lionel-]

Didn't look too much into it. It leaves your computer a bit more vulnerable I guess but not more so than before El Capitan.

One side effect of having SIP enabled is that you can't modify anything in /usr/ except /usr/local/. Even if you're root. Not being able to modify /usr/bin/ makes life a bit more difficult so that was one more reason to disable SIP.

[sanjeevverma1]

Disabling SIP makes everything work @brunorsini

[ldong]

SIP is the killer of such good app.

[iliakan]

It doesn't work for Firefox. Why? Can there be a workaround?

P.S. Chrome is fine.

[jitendravyas]

I installed it and disabled SIP. I think it doesn't work with any app on my mac. I'm on Sierra

[jitendravyas]

Does it work on Sierra for anyone?

[rwu823]

@jitendravyas

https://github.com/rwu823/afloat#macos-sierra-solution and #30

[Raikkiven]

OSX 10.12.6 , can't use it, Why?