Oct 27, 2018 @xiaoouwang- thanks for trying to help but it still doesn't work for me on Mac OS X Mojave (10.14.2 18C54). MySIMBL and Afloat are and were current (0.7.2, Afloat 2.5.2). I re-installed it anyway per your instructions - but Afloat is still completely ignored, it does nothing. I confirmed that system integrity protection is properly disabled. Afloat is a software that allows some Mac application windows to remain on top of other windows even when they are not in focus. Hence the name Always on Top. This is a standard feature for all windows in Ubuntu but in Mac we need to use a third-party software like Afloat to get this functionality. As of writing this post, Afloat is the only software I have seen that can let us do this on a.
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macOS | Latest version |
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macOS Big Sur | 11.3 |
macOS Catalina | 10.15.7 |
macOS Mojave | 10.14.6 |
macOS High Sierra | 10.13.6 |
macOS Sierra | 10.12.6 |
OS X El Capitan | 10.11.6 |
OS X Yosemite | 10.10.5 |
OS X Mavericks | 10.9.5 |
OS X Mountain Lion | 10.8.5 |
OS X Lion | 10.7.5 |
Mac OS X Snow Leopard | 10.6.8 |
Mac OS X Leopard | 10.5.8 |
Mac OS X Tiger | 10.4.11 |
Mac OS X Panther | 10.3.9 |
Mac OS X Jaguar | 10.2.8 |
Mac OS X Puma | 10.1.5 |
Mac OS X Cheetah | 10.0.4 |
I love the Afloat Mac app, it's a simple little app that does one thing well. Until the last couple of updates to Mac OSX that is. With the most recent update, it seems to not work at all, but that's not the case if you know the right tweaks to make to your system.
Shutter chance mac os. There's a decent tutorial here: https://github.com/rinckd/afloat
I've used it as a reference but found a few more steps were necessary and thought it could be explained a bit better for the novice Mac user.
How to fix the Afloat Mac App
Step 1 Download and install SIMBL 0.9.9
Step 2 Build rinckd's project in Xcode (follow the first link in this post).
Step 3 After buildingIn Xcode, right click on the Afloat.bundle and ‘Show in Finder'
Step 4 Drag and drop ‘Afloat' and 'Afloat Scripting' in to /Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins
Last step (This is the extra bit I had to do):
Mac Os Catalina
Restart your computer… during the reboot process, press and hold CMD+R to boot into recovery mode.
Once in recovery mode, select the terminal APP from the utilities menu.
Mac Os Catalina
Restart your computer… during the reboot process, press and hold CMD+R to boot into recovery mode.
Once in recovery mode, select the terminal APP from the utilities menu.
Dangers Afloat Mac Os Pro
In terminal run: