fix: overlay no longer transforms the app into an accessory process#516
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setVisibleOnAllWorkspaces(true, { visibleOnFullScreen: true }) flips the
whole app's macOS activation policy to UIElementApplication: the Dock
icon disappeared (electron#26350), the menu bar went with it, and the
main window stopped moving/focusing like a normal window
(electron#37487). Pass skipTransformProcessType (electron#27200) and
drop visibleOnFullScreen — the overlay keeps floating over normal
windows on all Spaces, just not above fullscreen Spaces, and the app
stays a normal windowed app.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This was referenced Jul 9, 2026
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What broke
Enabling the floating agent-status overlay made the whole app go weird: Dock icon vanished, menu bar gone, and the main window couldn't be moved or focused normally.
Root cause
setVisibleOnAllWorkspaces(true, { visibleOnFullScreen: true })on macOS transforms the entire app's activation policy betweenForegroundApplicationandUIElementApplication(accessory / LSUIElement). That single call on the overlay window demoted Agent Code itself to a background-accessory app:app.dock.show()can't reliably restore it — electron#26350Fix
Pass
skipTransformProcessType: true(electron#27200) and dropvisibleOnFullScreen. The overlay still floats above normal windows on every desktop/Space; the only loss is floating above fullscreen (green-button) Spaces. The app stays a normal windowed app — Dock icon, menu bar, movable main window. A loud comment now guards against reintroducingvisibleOnFullScreenwithout solving the transform side effect.Verification
tsc -b tsconfig.node.jsonclean (single main-process file changed)🤖 Generated with Claude Code