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No windows showing up in Big Sur/Intel

Open jsnedeco opened this issue 1 month ago • 11 comments

I recognize I'm on an ancient machine (Intel Big Sur Air) but I'm not getting the app to show any windows at all when I launch it for v0.4.3 including stuff like settings. I use Firefox as my main browser if that matters. I used the pre-compiled version and I haven't tried compiling myself, yet.

jsnedeco avatar Nov 08 '25 16:11 jsnedeco

@jsnedeco Very weird. Try exiting the app, and then removing the preferences file from Terminal.app:

rm ~/Library/Containers/jcsalterego.Sky/Data/Library/Preferences/jcsalterego.Sky.plist

Or it might be here

~/Library/Preferences/jcsalterego.Sky.plist

And try relaunching. Does that work?

jcsalterego avatar Nov 08 '25 22:11 jcsalterego

Gave it a shot, I was able to remove ~/Library/Containers/jcsalterego.Sky/Data/Library/Preferences/jcsalterego.Sky.plist, the other location didn't exist. Still no dice. I'm probably an edge case, a lot of stuff doesn't work because I can't upgrade OSX anymore.

jsnedeco avatar Nov 09 '25 00:11 jsnedeco

Sorry to hear. The last resort I can think of is launching Console and seeing if there are any clues in the logs for Sky.

jcsalterego avatar Nov 09 '25 00:11 jcsalterego

I did my best to close everything but Sky and this is a log of the errors I got on Console.

error_log_sky.rtf

I saw some of the "error 17:22:55.319103-0800 WindowServer CoreAnimation: NULL color space set on context (5044f767)" when I tried to do stuff

jsnedeco avatar Nov 09 '25 01:11 jsnedeco

My best interpretation of these logs are your OS is not happy with the app sandboxing and it won't let part of or all of WebKit load. I'm afraid this is beyond my depth!

jcsalterego avatar Nov 09 '25 01:11 jcsalterego

One last thing to try: load the app again and go to Window > Fill. Wherever the window is, it should now fill your screen and you can adjust the location.

jcsalterego avatar Nov 09 '25 02:11 jcsalterego

I don't have Window > Fill, but I tried Zoom and It brought up a window! A window with nothing but the blueksy logo, but progress! I give up for now, but I'll let you know if I find a solution.

jsnedeco avatar Nov 09 '25 04:11 jsnedeco

Fair enough. When you see the logo, that's a good sign; I usually hit cmd-shift-R to force a reload at that point.

jcsalterego avatar Nov 09 '25 14:11 jcsalterego

Happened to me on Mac Studio M2 Max (Tahoe 26.1) during the first start.

What I did to get it to show properly

💡 The app starts with no errors, but it opens in a 1x1 px window or something similar, but it's tiny for sure - I could see it like this:

  • Right-clicked the app icon in the Dock
  • Clicked the "Show all windows" and clicked the tiny app window
  • Moved the app to the right half of the screen using the Rectangle shortcut

dragstor avatar Nov 14 '25 08:11 dragstor

@dragstor Thanks! I definitely goofed when I allowed for adjustable window minimum width sizes. I'll figure out a fix in a bit here.

jcsalterego avatar Nov 16 '25 16:11 jcsalterego

i had a similar issue with first start on macOS Tahoe 26.1. i went with doing Window > Center, which gave me only a title bar, that when resized down to a normal size, it rendered properly.

psylum avatar Nov 18 '25 15:11 psylum