Weird behavior inside GUI (neovide)

[shahamran]

Bug description

I tried using the plugin in neovide, and it generally worked, but had some issues.

1. It seems to open the new client in a window or something, and there's a weird border (which doesn't exist in local / manually attached client).
2. After some usage, the local client crashed, and the remote server was still alive.
3. Sometimes the original, local client was shown instead of the remote-attached one, without any error message.

To reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Open neovide
2. Use RemoteStart <host>, with a host with the client-auto-connect option turned on.
3. Interact with the attached client for a bit.
4. See error.

Expected behavior

• The attached client should look and feel like local client (no extra border), perhaps with some visual indication that we're attached to a remote host.
• Handle client crashes gracefully by providing the user options: stop remote, reconnect, etc.

System info

• Local OS: macOS 14.4.1 (23E224)
• Local Neovim version: neovide 0.12.2 (20240128.222629), neovim:

  NVIM v0.10.0-dev-3048+gee41153a9-Homebrew
  Build type: Release
  LuaJIT 2.1.1713773202
  

• Remote host OS: Linux 5.3.0-28-generic #​30~18.04.1-Ubuntu
• Remote Neovim version: nightly, built from source:

  NVIM v0.10.0-dev
  Build type: Release
  LuaJIT 2.1.1713484068
  

[amitds1997]

Thanks for reporting this. I have not worked with any Neovim GUI so far so never configured the plugin for it. I'll check this out.

[shahamran]

Worked around it by setting:

client_callback = function(port, _)
  local cmd = ("neovide --server localhost:%s"):format(port)
  vim.fn.jobstart(cmd, {
    detach = true,
    on_exit = ...
  })
end,

[amitds1997]

Awesome. That's how I drive my personal set up too.

I have a PR open to fix part 1 of your issue. I have squashed one bug that might have been leading to 2 and 3, but not sure if your issue got fixed. Let me know if it is not.

[amitds1997]

Hey, let me know if you are still seeing any issues in Neovide or otherwise.

[amitds1997]

Going ahead and closing this. If you or anyone else still faces issue mentioned here, please re-open this or create a new issue.

[shahamran]

Hi @amitds1997, sorry for disappearing.

I actually stopped using neovide with remote-nvim, since it was less convenient than tmux+TUI (I wanted persistent terminals in the remote host).

I didn't test the default behavior after your change because the custom client command worked perfectly. If you want I can play around with the latest version.

Thanks!

[amitds1997]

Hey, no worries. As long as it works for you, that's great. If anyone else faces any such issue, they'll open a new issue. Thanks!