I love the Afloat Mac app, it’s a simple little app that does one thing well. Until the last couple of updates to Mac OSX that is. With the most recent update, it seems to not work at all, but that’s not the case if you know the right tweaks to make to your system.

There’s a decent tutorial here: https://github.com/rinckd/afloat
I’ve used it as a reference but found a few more steps were necessary and thought it could be explained a bit better for the novice Mac user.

How to fix the Afloat Mac App

Step 1 Download and install SIMBL 0.9.9
Step 2 Build rinckd’s project in Xcode (follow the first link in this post).
Step 3 After buildingIn Xcode, right click on the Afloat.bundle and ‘Show in Finder’
Step 4 Drag and drop ‘Afloat’ and “Afloat Scripting’ in to /Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins

Last step (This is the extra bit I had to do): Videoproc 3 0 (2018071801) download free.

Basically, Afloat brings windows management options Apple should have integrated into Mac OS years ago. Anyway, let’s move on. First, transparency: you can increase / decrease the transparency for a window via Ctrl + CMD + Up/Down or make the windows opaque / translucent with Ctrl + CMD + 1/0. Love monster mac os. Afloat, originally started by @millenomi, adds useful window management commands to most Mac apps, such as 'Keep on top' and 'Focus Follows Mouse', that you may be accustomed to if you ever used a real UNIX window manager. Afloat adds the following options to supported apps' Window menu and if no Window menu exists it will add it's own Afloat menu. Join this channel to get access to perks:can you learn in a week?

Restart your computer… during the reboot process, press and hold CMD+R to boot into recovery mode.
Once in recovery mode, select the terminal APP from the utilities menu.

In terminal run:

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