Desktop showed on top of windows

[lokxii]

Desktop folders suddenly showed on top of windows. Everywhere i click on the screen forces focus on Finder. brew service restart yabai does not help. I have to restart Mac to fix it. Using yabai-v5.0.1.

yabairc:

yabai -m signal --add event=dock_did_restart action="sudo yabai --load-sa"
sudo yabai --load-sa

yabai -m config layout bsp
yabai -m config window_placement second_child
yabai -m config split_ratio 0.5
yabai -m config mouse_modifier fn
yabai -m config mouse_action1 move
yabai -m config mouse_drop_action swap
yabai -m config window_topmost on

[lake-effect]

I also encountered this today. Here were my steps to reproduce:

1. Open a PDF from an icon on the desktop
2. Observe that icons appeared above the Preview window
3. Cmd+Tab to Preview, then Cmd+Q to quit
4. Note that behavior still continues after switching to other desktops, except for Google Chrome
5. Log out and log back in to reset

yabairc

#!/usr/bin/env sh

#
# for this to work you must configure sudo such that
# it will be able to run the command without password
#
# see this wiki page for information:
#  - https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/wiki/Installing-yabai-(latest-release)#configure-scripting-addition
#
yabai -m signal --add event=dock_did_restart action="sudo yabai --load-sa"
sudo yabai --load-sa
#

# global settings
yabai -m config                                 \
    layout bsp                                  \
    mouse_follows_focus          off            \
    focus_follows_mouse          autoraise      \
    window_origin_display        default        \
    window_placement             second_child   \
    window_zoom_persist          on             \
    window_topmost               on             \
    window_shadow                float          \
    window_animation_duration    0.05           \
    window_animation_frame_rate  120            \
    window_opacity_duration      0.2            \
    active_window_opacity        1.0            \
    normal_window_opacity        0.95           \
    window_opacity               on             \
    insert_feedback_color        0xffd75f5f     \
    active_window_border_color   0xff775759     \
    normal_window_border_color   0xff555555     \
    window_border_width          4              \
    window_border_radius         12             \
    window_border_blur           off            \
    window_border_hidpi          on             \
    window_border                off            \
    split_ratio                  0.50           \
    split_type                   auto           \
    auto_balance                 off            \
    top_padding                  0              \
    bottom_padding               0              \
    left_padding                 0              \
    right_padding                0              \
    window_gap                   5              \
    mouse_modifier               shift          \
    mouse_action1                move           \
    mouse_action2                resize         \
    mouse_drop_action            swap

yabai -m rule --add app="Alacritty" sticky=on layer=above manage=off
yabai -m rule --add app="Emacs" title!="^\$" manage=on
yabai -m rule --add app="Emacs" title="^\$" manage=off
yabai -m rule --add app="Mail" manage=on

# applications with custom rules
applications="(Calendar|Mail|Reminders|Notes|Microsoft Outlook|Discord|Messages|Slack|Firefox|Chrome|Code|Microsoft Word|Preview|Terminal|iTerm2|QuickTime|Player|Spotify|Music|Brave Browser|Kitty|Trello)"

# NOTE: you need to set the settings for the applications in the
#       list first, or else they don't apply properly and you can end up with
#       some weird border/float/window behaviours

# everything listed gets sent to below layer to prevent
# them from covering floating applications/popup windows
yabai -m rule --add app="^${applications}$" manage=on layer=below

echo "yabai configuration loaded.."

[koekeishiya]

Should be fixed in latest version.