#Install simbl how to
#Install simbl mac os

Instructions for re-enabling SIP are provided in this post below.Īlternative to downloading mySIMBL zip file from GitHub, you can use MacUpdate if you trust it. Once mySIMBL and Afloat are installed, you can re-enable SIP. The only thing I have to add is that you only need to disable SIP for installing mySIMBL.

#Install simbl how to

mySIMBL will instruct you if you need to do this and how to do it. During the installation of mySIMBL, it might ask you to disable System Integrity Protection (SIP), which requires you to boot in Recovery Mode. You can simply follow the instructions in mySIMBL README. Here are the specific steps that worked for me. While there could be many sources of SIMBL, mySIMBL works for me on MacOS Sierra and it is easy to install. Previously, for MacOS Yosemite and El Capitan, SIMBL 0.9.9 worked but it does not seem to work for MacOS Sierra.

Test, restart (if necessary), test, restart (to re-enable SIP), test.

Drop Afloat.bundle in SIMBL plugins folder.

You may choose to perform specific instruction in different ways, depending on what resources you already have available. For each general step, I have provided at least one specific set of instructions that worked for me. The instructions are provided as General Steps and Specific Instructions. If you have an older MacOS, please follow the instructions in the original post. This post presents a new set of instructions on how to enable Always on Top in MacOS Sierra.

#Install simbl mac os

Those instructions have become really old and do not work on Mac OS Sierra (10.12). The original post contained instructions on how to setup Always on Top using Afloat on MacOS Yosemite and El Capitan. If you want to learn more about Always on Top or Afloat, I recommend reading my original post (with pictures) on this topic. As of writing this post, Afloat is the only software I have seen that can let us do this on a Mac. This is a standard feature for all windows in Ubuntu but in Mac we need to use a third-party software like Afloat to get this functionality.

Afloat is a software that allows some Mac application windows to remain on top of other windows even when they are not in focus.