[BUG] Glitch with Neovim

[gvnadir]

Hello,

When I have Neovim opened in the terminal (in this case Alacritty on desktop 1), I have an annoying glitch when switching between workspaces. I tried to open Neovim using a different terminal, but nothing changes.

I'm using NVIM v0.11.4 with LazyVim.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f741728f-2597-4f00-a3ca-7e973604066e

OS: Ubuntu 25.04

DE: GNOME Shell 48.0

Neovim: v0.11.4

Thanks

[Favo02]

Thanks for the report!

The behavior is really strange, it's like NVim spawns a new independent (not inside Alacritty) window to do something when you switch workspace (or probably when you change focus). My guess is that he does that to save/sync something, but its just a wild guess.

I will try to investigate, but I cannot guarantee anything. Maybe enabling debug logging will give us some more hints (Extension preferences > Hide and ignore apps > Log displayed applications ids).

In the meantime, to mitigate the problem you could ignore all NVim windows (not Alacritty ones), so that it is ignored by the extension (Extension preferences > Hide and ignore apps > Add application to ignore).

[gvnadir]

Thank you for the fast response! Mmhh I did like you suggested and that's what I got:

Ignoring NVIM solved the glitch (the NVIM icon showing up) but the desktop flashes a bit while switching workspace. Do you think that log can give us a hint to fix it?

Thanks again