Flowlight 0.9.7

What's new in 0.9.7

• Relaunch works when something else starts your agents. A program reads its proxy settings once, at launch, so inspection only sees an agent started with them set. Relaunching assumed a person types in a terminal — but agents are increasingly started by something that outlives any window: a session manager, a supervising daemon, an editor's extension host. Opening a new terminal then changed nothing, because that shell will never be any agent's parent. The feature appeared to work and did nothing.
• It now finds what actually starts them. Flowlight walks up from a running agent, steps over the shells, and looks at what is above. A terminal means the relaunch opens in that terminal rather than Terminal.app. Anything else means the offer becomes to restart that process with the proxy environment set, so the agents it spawns afterwards inherit it — restarted with the command it was actually running, since a daemon invoked with a subcommand is not the same program as its bare name.
• And it says what that costs. Restarting a supervisor ends every session it is running. That is stated before you agree, not discovered after. What it cannot do is reach agents already running: their proxy settings were read at launch, and nothing changes them now.

Install

Signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple.

• brew install --cask xinbetween/tap/flowlight
• Flowlight.dmg — drag to Applications.
• Flowlight-0.9.7.pkg — installs to /Applications; offers to quit a running copy first.

macOS 15 or later, Apple silicon and Intel.

Full changelog: https://github.com/xinbetween/flowlight/releases

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