Error in uninstalling via homebrew

[Nintnedo]

I Used this app. I didnt like it. Deleted app. still effects my windows

[ianyh]

Have you quit the app as well?

[maclarel]

Having this same challenge. Uninstalled via brew but Amethyst is still hijacking all of my windows. As far as I can tell, there's no actual process running that's doing this, nor does Amethyst have any permissions in Accessibility.

Have you quit the app as well?

Not to be a meme, but how?

Edit: Ok, installing the application and stopping/starting it there cleared this up. There's something weird with the version available through homebrew...

[piersolenski]

Also having this 🫠

[piersolenski]

@maclarel how exactly did you resolve it in the end? I've tried reinstalling the application, both via homebrew and the website, tried "disabling", uninstalling via both methods, trashing all the preferences, and yet the maximum amount of windows allowed to display at one time feature persists.

At this point considering wiping my machine 🫠

@ianyh any ideas?

[ianyh]

Can you check to see if there's some process still running somewhere?

ps aux | grep -i amethyst

[ianyh]

You can also see if there's something in launchd that's causing it to just keep getting restarted or something.

launchctl list | grep -i amethyst

[piersolenski]

It looks like it is for both:

ps aux | grep -i amethyst
piers            80828   0.0  0.1 409801312  24000   ??  S     2:39pm   0:04.50 /private/var/folders/93/_ppw8bls1zq
37l52d1mbrdmh0000gn/T/AppTranslocation/D84F9C10-2F4D-4D18-ADCC-8F413C911DE5/d/Amethyst.app/Contents/MacOS/Amethyst
piers            17507   0.0  0.0 408628368   1680 s010  S+    5:50pm   0:00.00 grep -i amethyst

launchctl list | grep -i amethyst
80828   0       application.com.amethyst.Amethyst.4333004.4333014

Whats the best step forward?

[ianyh]

Try

launchctl remove application.com.amethyst.Amethyst.4333004.4333014

and then see if the process is still there.

[piersolenski]

I've quit Amethyst and now the launch agent has gone, but the process is still there. The PID keeps changing so I can't use kill.

[ianyh]

Could possibly be a launch daemon somehow? You can run the launchctl with sudo to see. Otherwise, you could grep for the current pid instead of an amethyst name to see if it's a different agent somehow.

[ianyh]

Also, this issue may be of help. Homebrew/homebrew-cask#51646

[piersolenski]

Which particular part of the homebrew issue are you referring to?

I don't know where I'd point xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine ... because the application supposedly no longer exists 🤔

launchctl list | grep -i amethyst is no longer returning anything, with or without sudo.

The pid seems to be constantly changing so I'm finding it hard to kill it or grep for it.

[ianyh]

You may need to reinstall it first. My impression is that the application was put in a quarantined state as a result of the homebrew installation, and it's stuck there now. I've made occasional changes to the brew formula over the years, but it's mostly just updated by other people so I'm not as familiar with it.

I'll try to see if I can reproduce this tomorrow, and fiddle with xattr to see if I can reverse the quarantine for you. This is really frustrating, and I'm considering removing the cask installation suggestion from the readme.

[piersolenski]

Reinstalling and running xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Amethyst.app then uninstalling didn't seem to solve the problem 🫠

Sorry, I love this app and have used in on and off over the years, but right now it seems stuck particularly on the maximum windows setting and it's driving me mad haha.

I've installed in via Homebrew in the past with no issues, so it's weird...

[ianyh]

You can try putting a dot file in that disables the window count limitation and only uses the floating layout. That would functionally disable it for the most part.

[ianyh]

Sorry, I haven't had access to a machine I can test this on yet today.

[piersolenski]

No worries, where would I place the dot file?

[ianyh]

This is the guide: https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst/blob/development/docs/configuration-files.md

[ianyh]

Okay, I can't reproduce this, but I've read up more on app translocation. One thing you can try is reinstalling via homebrew, but then manually move the application bundle around via Finder. So, like, from Applications to Desktop and back to Applications.

[ianyh]

Also, here is specifically what the ~/.amethyst.yml would look like:

layouts:
  - floating

window-max-count: 0

[piersolenski]

Sadly this doesn't seem to have made a difference 🫠

[ianyh]

Okay. How about installing directly? The newest beta would be the one to try. https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst/releases/tag/v0.21.0b

If that doesn't change anything, then I can try giving you a version of that build with a different hardened runtime configuration.