Sequoia 15.0.1 desktop switching fails

[chris-sanders]

I'm aware 15.0 is what's listed as supported, I let an auto-upgrade go through with 15.0.1 recently and yabai has started to fail in two specific ways.

1. I can no longer switch desktops. Via hotkeys
2. I can not move windows to other desktops. Instead of moving to another desktop the window gets pushed to the background on the same desktop.

Is there any information from a debugging perspective I could provide that would help identify what changed in 15.0.1? Or do I just need to wait for the project to address changes in the new update?

[matth3w-lau]

me2, I am experiencing an issue with your issue 2: yabai -m window --space 1; I think this issue emerge after I updated my macbook to 15.0/15.0.1

[Bug-president]

Thirded. Key commands are recorded and cursor follows the selected desktop, but desktop fails to switch. Started happening on switch to 15.0.1.

[alexandrelarouche]

Folks on the skhd repo talked about similar issues: koekeishiya/skhd#371

However, I doubt the observed behavior is linked to the change introduced by Sequoia 15.0.1, since even when respecting the new requirements for shortcuts, yabai does not successfully move windows (e.g. cmd + shift + [1,2,3,...]).

[shabarin]

I can confirm this as well:

I can not move windows to other desktops. Instead of moving to another desktop the window gets pushed to the background on the same desktop.

with the one exception: I actually can move window to a new space but only if that is another active space on a different display.

[chris-sanders]

Actually you're right, same results here I hadn't tried using a different monitor.

[martin-tomes]

As a workaround you can just run the skhd as a background process:

skhd &

to make it permanent (or till fixed) you can crate a login shell script with the command above to run skhd after login

[chris-sanders]

@martin-tomes can you clarify what you mean this doesn't help for me.

I've:

• disabled and uninstalled the skhd service
• ran skhd & to run it as a background process

While this asked me to approve my terminal, it didn't fix anything for me.

• I can move a window between monintors
• I can not move a window to a desktop that is not in focus
• I can not change the focused desktop

Are you saying you can move a window to an unfocused desktop and you can change the focus to a new desktop?

[blancpain]

Running macOS 15.1 and yabai 7.1.4 and had the same problem - none of the commands associated with moving windows around worked after the OS upgrade.

Following the instructions on partially disabling SIP fixed the issue for me. However, I feel somewhat uneasy about disabling SIP—are there plans to enable moving windows without having to disable SIP?

[koekeishiya]

Fixed in v7.1.5.

No, you need SIP disabled and scripting addition installed to move windows from Sequoia, because Apple added restrictions to their (private) API.

[chris-sanders]

Great thanks I've got it working again!
For anyone going through this process as well, don't forget if you followed the directions in the wiki you've put a sha256 on your visudo for running yabai --load-sa I had to update that which looked like the scripting addon not being installed, but it was really just failing to get started.

[fabiohj7]

Running:

• Yabai: v7.1.5.
• skhd: v0.3.9.
• MacOS Sequoia 15.1 | M1

I configured the scripting addition and disabled SIP but my shortcut keep putting my window to the background.

Is there a way that you could better explain the solution to this problem?