launches, no errors, but also no visible window (arch linux)

[igor47]

System

OS: Linux
Version: alacritty 0.13.1 (fe2a3c5)
Linux/BSD: Wayland under Gnome

Logs

igor47@fortress:~/.config/alacritty $ strace -o /tmp/alacritty.strace alacritty -vv
Created log file at "/tmp/Alacritty-7081.log"
[0.000003049s] [INFO ] [alacritty] Welcome to Alacritty
[0.000147119s] [INFO ] [alacritty] Version 0.13.1 (fe2a3c56)
[0.000264228s] [INFO ] [alacritty] Running on Wayland
[0.001283171s] [WARN ] [alacritty_config_derive] Unused config key: gtk_theme_variant
[0.001485284s] [WARN ] [alacritty_config_derive] Unused config key: schemes
[0.001606057s] [INFO ] [alacritty] Configuration files loaded from:
                                     "/home/igor47/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml"
[0.051560972s] [INFO ] [alacritty] Using EGL 1.5
[0.051915742s] [DEBUG] [alacritty] Picked GL Config:
                                     buffer_type: Some(Rgb { r_size: 8, g_size: 8, b_size: 8 })
                                     alpha_size: 8
                                     num_samples: 0
                                     hardware_accelerated: true
                                     supports_transparency: Some(true)
                                     config_api: Api(OPENGL | GLES1 | GLES2 | GLES3)
                                     srgb_capable: true
[0.116331335s] [DEBUG] [crossfont] Loaded Face Face { ft_face: Font Face: Bold, load_flags: TARGET_LIGHT, render_mode: "Lcd", lcd_filter: 1 }
[0.123597787s] [INFO ] [alacritty] Window scale factor: 1
[0.126795524s] [DEBUG] [alacritty] Loading "Inconsolata" font
[0.129604936s] [DEBUG] [crossfont] Loaded Face Face { ft_face: Font Face: Regular, load_flags: TARGET_LIGHT, render_mode: "Lcd", lcd_filter: 1 }
[0.133395302s] [DEBUG] [crossfont] Loaded Face Face { ft_face: Font Face: Bold, load_flags: TARGET_LIGHT, render_mode: "Lcd", lcd_filter: 1 }
[0.137308771s] [DEBUG] [crossfont] Loaded Face Face { ft_face: Font Face: Regular, load_flags: NO_BITMAP | TARGET_LIGHT, render_mode: "Lcd", lcd_filter: 1 }
[0.142022781s] [DEBUG] [crossfont] Loaded Face Face { ft_face: Font Face: Bold, load_flags: NO_BITMAP | TARGET_LIGHT, render_mode: "Lcd", lcd_filter: 1 }
[0.155070951s] [INFO ] [alacritty] Running on Mesa Intel(R) UHD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2)
[0.155195769s] [INFO ] [alacritty] OpenGL version 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 23.3.3-arch1.1, shader_version 4.60
[0.155331224s] [INFO ] [alacritty] Using OpenGL 3.3 renderer
[0.166347914s] [DEBUG] [alacritty] Enabled debug logging for OpenGL
[0.166521532s] [DEBUG] [alacritty] Filling glyph cache with common glyphs
[0.206864979s] [INFO ] [alacritty] Cell size: 8 x 18
[0.206968424s] [INFO ] [alacritty] Padding: 0 x 0
[0.207046786s] [INFO ] [alacritty] Width: 1920, Height: 1013
[0.207190650s] [INFO ] [alacritty] PTY dimensions: 56 x 240
[0.212569600s] [INFO ] [alacritty] Initialisation complete
[0.213932368s] [DEBUG] [alacritty_terminal] New num_cols is 240 and num_lines is 54

[kchibisov]

#7465

[igor47]

ah yup, it's because i had:

[window]
startup_mode = "Maximized"

removed and now back to terminal glory, thanks!

[kchibisov]

mutter has a patch upstream to fix it https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/3475 if you rely on it.