yabai process restarting even after stopping the service

[anujc4]

tldr; Not able to stop yabai process once started

Expected Behaviour

When I perform yabai --stop-service, I should not see a yabai process anymore

Current Behaviour

Yabai restarts itself with a different PID

Steps to reproduce

I don't know if this is a wide-known issue, but here is how I reproduced the issue.

1. Run yabai --stop-service
2. Run ps aux | grep yabai, the yabai process still exists
3. Try to manually kill the process killall yabai
4. Run ps aux | grep yabai, the yabai process will still be there with a different PID

This is the output from my terminal

Context

I am using the release version 6.0.0

$ yabai --version
yabai-v6.0.0

[Odaym]

what the hell did you do to my yabai! ever since the last update everything is messed up

[ucasyfp]

Same here, but I am using version 5.0.9.

[anujc4]

what the hell did you do to my yabai! ever since the last update everything is messed up

Calm down mate, Open Source is hard and it's difficult for one developer (huge props to @koekeishiya btw) to maintain a tool that is so widely used and loved. I'm pretty sure this is just a minor bug and won't even effect any workflows in a breaking way.

[Odaym]

I'm sorry, I just love yabai too much!

[prurph]

I'm unable to repro this on yabai-v6.0.1 macOS Sonoma 14.1.1 with SIP disabled and scripting add-on enabled.

I happened upon this issue b/c I was trying to use brew services stop, which is no longer the way, but yabai --stop-service works for me.