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Wondering if there would be a way to either have an option or via modifying the code to enable setting a particular app/window to have partial surface transparency so that only a particular square/rectangle area in an app's window is translucent.

Any suggestion is welcome.

MacBook Air 13'' mid-2013, OS X Mavericks 10.9.2.

Afloat was previously working with OS X Preview. After I installed the latest security update (2014-002, version 1.0) and rebooted, Afloat options are no longer visible under the Window menu in Preview. I don't know if any other apps are affected, but except for Preview, Afloat is still working in the other apps I use it with.

I'm aware that the last version of AFLOAT I was using did not affect BGHUDAppkit. I had been using EasySIMBL together with AFLOAT on a Mavericks without problems until I've had to install a new application (Devonthink) that apparently uses the same elements as SIMBL and AFLOAT. I uninstalled these two, but Devonthink is still crashing on the same issue when opening html files, and the console shows stuff like this:

objc[14891]: Class BGHUDTextFieldCell is implemented in both /Applications/DEVONthink Pro.app/Contents/Frameworks/BGHUDAppKit.framework/Versions/A/BGHUDAppKit and /Users/Gaizka/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/Afloat.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Afloat. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.

Devonthink don't know how to fix it. Have you got an idea why the BGHUDAppkit is still referring to SIMBL / AFLOAT after both had been uninstalled? I had also removed the /Library entries for SIMBL and AFLOAT.

After every boot, when I open application e.g Preview for the first time, it always opens this dialog:

I click open and nothing happens. When I restart machine, it happens again. It's quite annoying. Happens with other applications too, but not with every. E.g with TextEdit it does it also. I'm using Yosemite. and Afloat 2.1.1

Perhaps in lieu of getting your hands on some documentation or a wiki, please know that you will find some useful KB articles right on the infinite-labs web site if you browse to the following URL address:

http://infinite-labs.net/kb/

Hope this helps!
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It seems that only the source is available here and the website links back to the GIthub page.

Hi guys, just a quick note to say that Afloat didn't work for me on El Capitan despite the many instructions available on Afloat/EasySIMBL/SIMBL. The only thing that worked for me is disabling El Capitan's System Integrity Protection (SIP) (read from http://www.chrisvanpatten.com/master-windows-afloat-mac#comment-2299581913).
Instructions that worked for me:

1. Reboot
2. Hold Cmd+R while booting (Recovery mode)
3. Go to Utilities menu and select Terminal
4. Type csrutil disable; reboot, your Mac will reboot normally
5. Open EasySIMBL and uncheck/recheck "Use SIMBL" and reboot again

Unfortunately I tried re-enabling SIP with csrutil enable; reboot after but that disabled Afloat again. So it's up to you if you wish to keep SIP or not.

Hello ,

thank you very much for this wonderful app, as it helps me a great deal to leave my desktop less cluttered and to be more productive.

Would like to know if it possible to enable this afloat feature also for X11 windows , because my favorite video player MPV is stuck at earlier version and hence therefore has no stay-on-top yet inbuilt;
i would like to resort to afloat, but it seems to work for quicktime 7 and other apps, but not for X11 (Xquartz) apps.

I've run into one Afloat-related crash so far with Keychain Access.app. Crashes right before the system dialog comes up to authenticate with my user password.

Since any interactions performed with the mouse will pass through the window when in overlay mode, even though you might have "make opaque when working with application" turned on, the mouse hover should not trigger opaque behavior.

I click through the app, and in these cases, I want the window to remain translucent. However if I CMD+Tab to the window, then it should become opaque (and ideally clicks should no longer fall through).

The afloat download page 404's, is there a mirror for that dmg? I'll even host it if you want.

Hi there,
I'm doing some simple ctypes scripting. I have Firefox.app running next to the developer editions of firefox known as "Firefox Developer Edition.app", "Firefox Beta.app", "Nightly.app". I am doing some ctypes from my main "Firefox.app", in it i can set any window OWNED by Firefox.app to always on top, however it is failing when I try to do to others.

This code works for windows owned by the process running the code -

[aNSWindow setLevel: Int(CGWindowLevelForKey(kCGFloatingWindowLevelKey))]

Can you please help me so I can set windows of my other Firefox's to always on top?

I got all informations on the windows with: CGWindowListCopyWindowInfo

Thanks very much

Before you could install the app from Afloat download page, now /mac/post-download link redirects to this GitHub page. How exactly you can install this app?

I don't see any DMG files anywhere to download and install.

norio-nomura/EasySIMBL#27

Hello,

I am running Yosemite 10.10.1 and downloaded the Zip file. There is a lack of documentation on this page that describes the install process and no readme in the Zip file.

There are a bunch of files in the directory but no mention of how to install the application.

Please help me understand the install process. Thanks.

Garbage Collection has been removed, is this something you can easily change or comment out ?

Hi there,
I was trying to add this exact same functionality to a Firefox addon. I posted a topic on Stackoverflow I was wondering if you could help please -

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36075213/inject-code-to-other-applications-replicate-simbl-and-afloat-behavior-with-coc

I think you used to provide these on your website before your redesign.

Hello,

can someone help me to install this for Leopard 10.5.8?

Thank you,

Richard

It looks like the hang is caused somewhere in _withGlobalStorage() in both Chromium.app and freeciv-gtk2 hangs. Possibly a threading deadlock?

I've attached the call stack for freeciv-gtk2. The hang occurs in the same place when launching Chromium.app according to the call stack reported by Activity Monitor's process sampler.
freeciv-gtk2-sample.txt

$ uname -a
Darwin mbp12,1 15.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 15.6.0: Fri Feb 17 10:21:18 PST 2017; root:xnu-3248.60.11.4.1~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

Hey guys,

I love afloat and want to update the software for Mavericks. I'm wondering if you guys could include a readme.md or something along those lines that includes instructions on how to install the software.

Thanks!

Hi,

I'm beta tester in Yosemite Program.

I cannot compile afloat anymore. Xcode 6 preview with LLVM 6.0 asked me to convert old garbage collector in ARC automatically but it failed...

error: garbage collection is no longer supported

Hey guys,

I was using the former installer supplied by the developer on his site but now I have no idea how to install it from the zip I downloaded from github.

Pretty sure it's easy but I'd appreciate if somebody could point me in the right direction.

Thanks.