What Yabar changes in yabai
Everything carries a yabar- label and is taken back out when Yabar quits:
- Signals
yabar-<event>for window, application, space and display events. Each writes one line to Yabar's socket (/tmp/yabar_$USER.socket) withnc; it costs a few milliseconds and does nothing when Yabar isn't running. - A rule
yabar-overlayskeeps yabai from managing Yabar's own indicator panels. - Rules
yabar-scratchpad-<name>for scratchpads.
Per space, as profiles, room for indicators, columns and focus sizing ask:
space --padding,space --gap,space --layoutconfig --space N split_type,config --space N auto_balancewindow --resize,--stack,--insert,--warpas you work.
Only what differs from your .yabairc is sent. On quit (including kill and logout) every space Yabar changed goes
back to your .yabairc's padding, gap, split type and auto-balance; after a crash, the next launch does it. A space's
layout is only ever reset when a profile set it: yabai rebuilds a space on every --layout.
Every few seconds Yabar checks its signals are still there: a yabai that restarted has none, and gets them back.