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[24unix]

Hi, just out of curiosity:

Why does the injection into the Dock be performed via sudo?

I guess TotalSpaces also works with injection, but doesn’t need sudo.

Kind regards,
Micha

[koekeishiya]

Yabai needs sudo permission because we use the mach API, in particular the task_for_pid and thread_create_running functions.
I assume TotalSpaces found a different solution for macOS Big Sur, but I'm not aware of what they did.

[24unix]

Both projects are so great, it would be cool for all Mac users if they merge, I know, that is not an option, but they play together so nicely.

But, when I star yabai via brew services, won’t that be possible to do that as root? I guess brew services has that option.