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Copy/paste the Afloat.bundle folder into the plugins folder /Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins.

Run mySIMBL using the MacOS search bar (pressing Command+Space and typing in mySIMBL).

Drop Afloat.bundle in SIMBL plugins folder Check your deploy location for a Afloat.bundle folder. You can clone the Afloat repository and use Xcode to build it yourself. Once you have cloned/downloaded the afloat folder, navigate to afloat/bundle/Afloat.bundle.

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You can either clone the afloat repository using git or you can download the afloat folder as a zip file and unzip it. You can find this folder in Rocky Wu’s GitHub repository here. If you have never installed Afloat before, then you need to obtain Afloat.bundle. Some places to look for it are /Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins and ~/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins. Find the folder Afloat.bundle on your computer and copy it somewhere safe. If you have installed Afloat before, don’t uninstall or delete it yet. You might have Afloat.bundle from previous Afloat installation. Once you obtain this folder, I recommend that making a more long-term backup of this folder (Google Drive, for example) for future use. These are multiple methods to obtaining Afloat.bundle folder. 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.

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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.

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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.