[Question] Detect macOS yabai(Window manager)

[Helloyunho]

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Wanted features:

Currently fastfetch doesn't know I'm using yabai for window manager

Motivation:

neofetch does know I'm using a custom window manager as seen below:

But fastfetch just says Quartz:

[CarterLi]

neofetch only knows you have a process named yabai running, it doesn't know whether it is the WM yabai or not.

Same as fastfetch --wm-detect-plugin

[Helloyunho]

neofetch only knows you have a process named yabai running, it doesn't know whether it is the WM yabai or not.

Same as fastfetch --wm-detect-plugin

Oh I didn't know it was separated
I tried fastfetch -c all but it still didn't detect yabai so I thought it was missing
Anyway thanks for the help!

[CarterLi]

I want to clarify it again that the wm detection is very loose. Try this

$ ln -s $(which vim) fakechunkwmfake && ./fakechunkwmfake &
$ neofetch

[Helloyunho]

I want to clarify it again that the wm detection is very loose. Try this

$ ln -s $(which vim) fakechunkwmfake && ./fakechunkwmfake &
$ neofetch

WOah what?! It's based on program name 🤣

[CarterLi]

Is yabai an ancestor process of the iterm2 process? What does pstree print?

[Helloyunho]

Is yabai an ancestor process of the iterm2 process? What does pstree print?

pstree is not installed on my Mac but I can say that it's not running on iTerm, rather it's a daemon(launched by launchd)

[CarterLi]

ps -ef should be ok

[Helloyunho]

ps -ef should be ok

I don't really know how to read the output but it sure has yabai in it

501 10797 1 0 3:48PM ?? 1:08.68 /opt/homebrew/bin/yabai

[CarterLi]

Just paste the output here

ps -ef | pbcopy

[CarterLi]

Good. So that yabai is a daemon process. We can reduce some mis-detection by testing its ppid is 1

You can remove the process list

[MatthiasPortzel]

Rectangle output from ps -ef:

501 97721     1   0 Wed09AM ??         0:42.18 /Applications/Rectangle.app/Contents/MacOS/Rectangle

and pstree (also trimmed)

-+= 00001 root /sbin/launchd
...
 |--= 97721 matthias /Applications/Rectangle.app/Contents/MacOS/Rectangle
...

Any thing else I can do to help debug?
It still wasn't working on the lastest build for me.