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How to exclude an app from staging
Published by BetterStage · Instructions for our macOS app; detailed feature reference is linked below.
Steps
- 1
Open Settings → App Exceptions → Exclude from Staging, then click Add App… and pick the app.
- 2
That app stays visible on every stage and is not hidden when you switch away.
- 3
If a TabStack covers it, open the Snap Wheel and use Raise Floating Windows (the live label is Bring floating windows to front).
- 4
The menu bar item Exclude App from Auto-Tiling writes this same list. Float in Window Modes is a different list.
Try it yourself
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