A blank window appears at startup.

[marvelph]

It seems that a blank window appears each time Spaceman is started.
The title of the window is “Spaceman Settings”.

Spaceman 1.0
macOS 15.0.1

[jsonMartin]

Yeah, this is also happening for me. Otherwise, the app seems to work just fine, but it's annoying to have to close this every time on Startup.

I'm using MacOS Sequoia 15.1 (24B83)

[erikmartinessanches]

I have the same issue, macOS 15.1, M1 Pro. It appears the app is not running as it was for jsonMartin. I am a first-time user.

[yunruse]

Can confirm. I think it is a Sequoia thing. It's also identical to an issue I've seen that has been recently fixed:

• blank window in the menu bar DamascenoRafael/reminders-menubar#204

@DamascenoRafael, what behaviour caused this previously?

[obfischer]

Same here

[DamascenoRafael]

@yunruse, I just compiled the application again using a mac running Sequoia. If it was some change in the code itself that fixed this, I didn't notice.

[usagimaru]

Can this bug be fixed by removing EmptyView() from the Settings described in SpacemanApp in AppDelegate?

var body: some Scene {
	Settings {
		EmptyView() // REMOVE this line
	}
}

Spaceman/Spaceman/AppDelegate.swift

Lines 48 to 54 in 17fd96b

	var body: some Scene {
	Settings {
	EmptyView()
	}
	}

I found a similar problem and solution on Stack Overflow.

MacOS Swift (UI): Prevent App Window Opening
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79068815/macos-swift-ui-prevent-app-window-opening?rq=2

[pinguinpfleger]

Sadly, Spaceman doesn't work for me as well (M4/Sequoia). I get the empty screen on the first run, and that's it. I cannot see or use Spaceman in any way.

[szechp]

this project seems abandoned, but there's an updated fork:

https://github.com/ruittenb/Spaceman

@Jaysce is this project abandoned?

[gregorias]

this project seems abandoned, but there's an updated fork:

https://github.com/ruittenb/Spaceman

Last time I checked in 2025, that fork also had this blank window issue.

[erikmartinessanches]

this project seems abandoned, but there's an updated fork:
https://github.com/ruittenb/Spaceman

Last time I checked in 2025, that fork also had this blank window issue.

I am running Spaceman on M1 Pro macOS 15.5. The blank window appeared only once at the first launch for me, after that, I was able to access its preferences.

[gregorias]

after that, I was able to access its preferences.

Accessing preferences is not what this issue is about. It’s about showing the blank window on startup, which the fork has not fixed.

[ruittenb]

Hello all, I tried to fix the problem in the latest release of ruittenb/Spaceman.
Could you please test v1.8.3?
https://github.com/ruittenb/Spaceman/releases/tag/v1.8.3
I'm asking because I'm not running Sequoia.

[jensb]

I am still getting this using the most recent release and on MacOS 26.2.

[ruittenb]

@jensb when you say "Most recent release", do you mean 1.13.5?