asmvik / asmvik/yabai

Persistent accessibility issues on 26.4.1

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Description

I've installed yabai, but executing any command gives me this error: `yabai-msg: failed to connect to socket..`

Did the exact same install on a duplicate machine yesterday and had no such trouble. Yabai is turned on for accessibility permissions in Settings. However, running `/opt/homebrew/bin/yabai` gives me this: `yabai: could not access accessibility features! abort..` which triggers a redundant accessibility request that does nothing.

Tried uninstalling and reinstalling—same thing.

I see there's a lot of conversation about this elsewhere on this repo, but all the issues appear to be slightly different from mine or using an earlier macOS. I'm on macOS 26.4.1.

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Research direction

Reproduce the failure on macOS 26.4.1 by running /opt/homebrew/bin/yabai and a yabai command, then inspect why the reported accessibility permission is not recognized and why the socket is unavailable. Done means yabai can access accessibility features and commands connect without triggering a redundant permission request.

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Assessment

Tech stack
c, macos
Domain
desktop, operating-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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