Yabai manage=off window not working

[MrNeth]

since the update the following is not working

yabai -m rule --add app="^System Preferences$" manage=off border=off
yabai -m rule --add app="^System Settings$" manage=off border=off
yabai -m rule --add app="^Archive Utility$" manage=off border=off
yabai -m rule --add app="^Activity Monitor$" manage=off border=off
yabai -m rule --add app="^Finder" manage=off border=off
yabai -m rule --add app="^Carpe$" manage=off border=off

also this doesnt work for visual studio code specifically:

yabai -m rule --add app="Visual Studio Code" space=5

[MrNeth]

update

This seems to work:

yabai -m rule --add app!="^(Google Chrome|Visual Studio Code|Brave Browser|WhatsApp|Telegram|)$" manage=off

still have an issue where yabai ignores VS Code

[merlinvn]

This config works for me.

yabai -m rule --add app=Code space=^4

To see the proper name for an app, you can use:

yabai -m query --windows --space 4

[koekeishiya]

If something isn't working. Run the command in a terminal session to get feedback, or look in the logs associated with the service instance (/tmp/yabai_$USER.[err|out].log).

In your first case, the problem is that you provide an invalid property border that was removed half a year ago, making all these rules invalid. This will be reported in an error message in stderr.

Also not all applications use their full name as the actual name of the software. Use yabai queries to identify the correct name to use in rules.