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Afloat not working on El Capitan + possible solution #22

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sebastienkb opened this issue Feb 25, 2016 · 1 comment
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Afloat not working on El Capitan + possible solution #22

sebastienkb opened this issue Feb 25, 2016 · 1 comment

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@sebastienkb
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Hi guys, just a quick note to say that Afloat didn't work for me on El Capitan despite the many instructions available on Afloat/EasySIMBL/SIMBL. The only thing that worked for me is disabling El Capitan's System Integrity Protection (SIP) (read from http://www.chrisvanpatten.com/master-windows-afloat-mac#comment-2299581913).
Instructions that worked for me:

  1. Reboot
  2. Hold Cmd+R while booting (Recovery mode)
  3. Go to Utilities menu and select Terminal
  4. Type csrutil disable; reboot, your Mac will reboot normally
  5. Open EasySIMBL and uncheck/recheck "Use SIMBL" and reboot again

Unfortunately I tried re-enabling SIP with csrutil enable; reboot after but that disabled Afloat again. So it's up to you if you wish to keep SIP or not.

@jordanticktin
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Note to others reading this: Be very careful disabling SIP. SIP is a security feature designed to protect your system, so only disable it if you fully understand the risks and are sure you know what you're doing. If you haven't heard of SIP before, you probably don't know what you're doing, and I wouldn't recommend disabling it.

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