[Bug]: Kitty and alacritty crashes

[Sveen]

Bug Report

Description

After using kitty or alacritty it suddenly stops responding and refuses to close when i use the key binding

Steps to Reproduce

1. Update the system with sudo pacman -Syyu
2. Use kitty until it crashes

Actual Behavior

Cant type in any command or close the terminal

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Environment

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e.g.,

• Linux Distro: ArchLinu
• Linux archlinux 6.8.2-arch2-1
• Hyprland Version, Hyprland, built from branch HEAD at commit c5e28ebcfe00a510922779b2c568cfa52a317445 (props: bump ver 0.37.1). Date: Sat Mar 16 14:51:49 2024 Tag: v0.37.1

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• Installation Environment: , On The Main Hardware,

[Nidhogblo]

• I'm looking for information but I didn't find anything similar.
• can you check Resource Usage // just to rule that out

by any chance have you felt your hyprland slow ?, I see that this is a common problem in hyprland.

if it's not one of those, tell me so I can look for where else the error might be.

[Sveen]

yes i felt that hyprland has been slow especially when i change the theme

[Nidhogblo]

i think is more problem of your drivers or wayland ,that a alacritty/kitty problem , Do you have nvidia or a especial gpu?

[Sveen]

nope i don't

[kRHYME7]

Do you need a reboot to fix this ? or only happens in the terminal?

[Sveen]

Yes i need a reboot to fix it, but when the terminal crashes it sometimes affect the use of other apps and stops the laptop from functioning properly

[kRHYME7]

Yes i need a reboot to fix it, but when the terminal crashes it sometimes affect the use of other apps and stops the laptop from functioning properly

I experienced this issues too, there is a possibility that your secondary drive where you install your Linux is failing or loose.

I always experience this issue when

• My NVMe drive had loose screw
• I've used an old HDD
• Installed Hyprland in a Thumb Drive.

Usually occurs if drive is overwhelmed. Please check yours.

[Sveen]

I am dual booting it in primary drive and the problem did not start until i did an update and i don't think my HDD is that old. Do you know of anything that could be the problem

[kRHYME7]

The second OS you dual boot works?

[Sveen]

yes it does and it's windows am dual booting with

[its-19818942118]

Actually same problem happens on my end too which is annoying so I open another terminal instance and kill kitty

[kRHYME7]

@Sveen Hello do you still have these issues?

[abenezerw]

If you no longer have this problem, can you close out this issue. @Sveen

[kRHYME7]

Closing this as stale.

For someone who might stumble with the Alacritty keyword here for HyDE here you go! https://github.com/HyDE-Project/terminals-hyde/tree/main/alacritty