Cannot move current focused window to other space from command line

[MikeChristensen]

I'm trying to move the currently focused active window to another space from the command line, that way I can bind the command to a shortcut key using skhd.

Steps to repro:

1. While on space 2, In the terminal (I'm using Ghostty), run the following command:

yabai -m window --space 5

Expected Result:

The current terminal window which has the focus should be moved to space 5.

Actual Result:

The current terminal window disappears from space 2 as you would expect. However, when you then switch to space 5, the window is not there. If you then go back to space 2, the window has returned there again.

Info:

Yabai Version: yabai-v7.1.17
MacOS Verison: Sequoia Version 15.7.4 (24G517) (Apple M1 Max)
csrutil status: System Integrity Protection status: disabled.

Nothing appears to be written to /tmp/yabai_mike.err.log after trying to command.

[joliss]

On the off chance that this helps: I thought I was having a similar problem [1] after migrating to a new MacBook. When I ran sudo yabai --load-sa and it printed an error, I realized I had missed enabling non-Apple-signed arm64e binaries on the SIP instructions (step 6). Running sudo nvram boot-args=-arm64e_preview_abi and rebooting fixed the issue. (Perhaps it's worth improving yabai's error reporting in this regard -- yabai seemed to just silently ignore the --display option without printing any error message, and I only saw that something was wrong when I ran sudo yabai --load-sa and it printed an error.)

But it might be that the issue you're seeing is a different one, in which case sorry for hijacking!

[1] My problem was moving to another display (--display). But I believe that's the same code path as moving to another space, since it just looks up the current space on that display, and moves the window to that space.