Native macOS Big Sur tabs are considered windows

[yanggggjie]

Hello everyone! When I open two or more IDEA projects with tabs. IDEAs take up space as white space.

Follow the steps below to reproduce
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3.open projects

How to open projects as tabs in IntelliJ - Stack Overflow

[nikitabobko]

macOS accessibility API reports tabs as windows. The issue is reproducible in Finder, Terminal.app, TextEdit, etc

Workaround: don't use this macOS feature. AeroSpace offers accordion layout that can be used as a replacement

References:

• Handle native tabs properly koekeishiya/yabai#68
• Opening new tabs in Terminal changes its position in the layout ianyh/Amethyst#633

[yanggggjie]

It's solved, thank you for your wonderful answer. 🎄🎁

[nikitabobko]

I'd like to keep it open because there might be ways to detect such windows

[GraemeARobinson]

could yo detect them by checking whether they are all the same size and also in the foreground at the same time or have the same z-index or something like that?

[totolouis]

Just adding more context on this issue, since :

In particular, I'm interested in issues that block you from using AeroSpace on daily basis.

I got a workflow where I am dealing with some scripts in terminal where I need to have at least 6/7 tabs open per terminal. So most of the time, I have a setup where I am using 3 verticals terminals windows with Rectangle, with around 10 tabs.
Also, this issue seems to happen with others app too, like Fork.
So yeah, just to say that, as a user, may be hard to workaround over all the specific edges cases that trigger this behavior.

[ubuntudroid]

I also just found out about this the hard way. By switching between the tabs in Finder a few times I even got Aerospace to crash. If you tell me where to find it, I can attach a log.

[ubuntudroid]

Hm, I found the location where the log is supposed to be in another issue: /tmp/bobko.aerospace/runtime-error.txt. But that folder unfortunately doesn't exist for me. 🤷

[nikitabobko]

Hm, I found the location where the log is supposed to be in another issue: /tmp/bobko.aerospace/runtime-error.txt

AeroSpace detects some of its crashes but not all of them. If AeroSpace manages to detect the crash then Terminal.app is opened with the crash log and the crash log is located in /tmp/bobko.aerospace/runtime-error.txt

In your case, it's probably a more severe crash. And AeroSpace couldn't detect it. You can find logs of severe crashes in Console.app

[ubuntudroid]

You are right, I found it via Console. Had to zip it for Github to allow me to upload it though. 😅

AeroSpace-2024-02-13-122813.ips.zip

[nikitabobko]

@ubuntudroid thanks for the report! Your stacktrace is the same as in #164