Dead window taking up space

[lukas-kyeso]

Occasionally I have an issue where Aerospace will think there is is a window that doesnt exist:

This messes up the tiling as it creates an empty space for this non existant window.
It's clear that aerospace knows the window doesn't exist via the output from aerospace focus, maybe it could prune dead ones occasionally or something?

This only seems to happen with the ChatGPT native Mac client.

Could potentially be related to #445 although that says it was fixed in a previous version, maybe a regression or new issue

I am on the latest :

aerospace CLI client version: 0.16.2-Beta 21336ad382539b35fdc94b4fbd55408e10b101f8
AeroSpace.app server version: 0.16.2-Beta 21336ad382539b35fdc94b4fbd55408e10b101f8

I'm on mac air m1 sequioa 15.3.1 (24D70)

[nikitabobko]

It's clear that aerospace knows the window doesn't exist via the output from aerospace focus

What is the output?

UPD: Ok, I see on the screenshot: "Invalid 71 passed to --window-id"

maybe it could prune dead ones occasionally or something?

AeroSpace indeed already does that as of #445

Pointer in the source code: gcWindows

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1. I don't observe that bug on my Sequoia laptop, but I don't remember what exact version it's. I will check later in the evening and write back to compare it with your version
2. Please try to disable other accessibility apps, maybe there is an interference. E.g. contexts.app is known to interfere with AeroSpace
3. Does it happen with dead windows of all apps or only some particular apps? UPD: I see, "ChatGPT native Mac client"
4. Is it a random or reliably reproducible bug?
5. What happens if you restart AeroSpace? Dead windows gone, right? Just checking
6. How long have you been observing it? Maybe something happened that started triggering it?

[lukas-kyeso]

4. It seems to happen more often when my computer is under heavy load
5. Restarting removes the dead window
6. Since a few months

[nikitabobko]

My macOS is also 15.3.1 (24D70) and I can't reproduce the bug with ChatGPT native Mac client