Alacritty process hang on close

[dougg0k]

I noticed that when I close Alacritty, through an exit for example, the window closes normally, but the shortcut icon progress bar keeps spinning and I am unable to open another instance till it stops, and even a bit more after it stops, only after.

I am using this ppa https://launchpad.net/~aslatter/+archive/ubuntu/ppa with the latest version, even though when installing it says 0.13.1, when I do a -v, it shows 0.14.0-dev.

I use nushell, zellij and starship with it.

PopOS 22.04

Laptop with very good hardware. Certainly not the problem.

I was using Terminator as the terminal before and never had this kind of behavior, not a really bad thing, but sometimes it could be, that's why I opened the issue.

[chrisduerr]

What makes you think Alacritty isn't closing? When opening Alacritty from a terminal, does it not return to the prompt immediately?

This sounds like it's just a DE issue tbh.

[dougg0k]

I just described why, but will do again, there is that spinning (loading indicator) that keeps rotating on the shortcut, indicating that the process has not yet closed (even though the window has closed), and also a bit after the spin is gone, I am still not able to open another Alacritty instance. It does nothing If I click on it to open. That is why.

[kchibisov]

Do you see alacritty in the process tree?

[chrisduerr]

When opening Alacritty from a terminal, does it not return to the prompt immediately?

Please answer this question.

[dougg0k]

Before when I did -v it opened a new instance of it, regardless if from normal terminal or alacritty itself. I didnt check just with the command itself.

I had turned the laptop off, now I tried to turn it on, gave a grey screen on the login screen, seems related to nvidia gpu, trying to fix, so I am not able to check right now.

[dougg0k]

I fixed the login issue.

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I just recorded a video showing the behavior.

2024-02-07.19-55-24.mp4

Video format (HEVC) might not work here on the browser, but if you download, it should.

When I type alacritty -v, a new window is open.

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I just installed on my desktop, same OS, and the same thing happens.

I also installed Wezterm, using together with all other shell tools, that does not happen, so that should indicate that those tools are not at fault. Same thing on Terminator.

[kchibisov]

If you add

[env]
LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE = "1"

in your config is it getting fixed? It seems like not our issue. It was also requested to try running from other terminal with -v and seeing if the alacritty itself exits. However alacritty doesn't try to connect to any running instance, it should create new when you run it again, thus it's likely an issue with DE or driver.

[dougg0k]

It doesnt.

But I see what you mean. Yeah, if I constantly exit and open a alacritty again through the terminal or keyboard shortcut, it goes instantly to a new window, without any delays.

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cat /usr/share/applications/com.alacritty.Alacritty.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
TryExec=alacritty
Exec=alacritty
Icon=com.alacritty.Alacritty
Terminal=false
Categories=System;TerminalEmulator;

Name=Alacritty
GenericName=Terminal
Comment=A fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator
StartupNotify=true
StartupWMClass=Alacritty
Actions=New;

[Desktop Action New]
Name=New Terminal
Exec=alacritty

It's PopOS 22.04, in the laptop the install was on this week.

[dougg0k]

I suppose I have handed all the information you asked for, if you need anything else, let me know, I wont be opening alacritty on straight clicks, that was just because I had installed in the laptop at that time and noticed the issue and wanted to report it.

I mostly use keyboards shorcuts which the problem doesnt happen.

[lpnh]

I just described why, but will do again, there is that spinning (loading indicator) that keeps rotating on the shortcut, indicating that the process has not yet closed (even though the window has closed), and also a bit after the spin is gone, I am still not able to open another Alacritty instance. It does nothing If I click on it to open. That is why.

I believe I am experiencing the same issue. When I launch Alacritty through a terminal command, it functions as expected: I can open, close, and instantly reopen it without any problems. However, attempting to initiate Alacritty using a shortcut or by clicking its icon leads to a persistent spinning cursor, which remains even after closing Alacritty. Moreover, I'm unable to relaunch it (either via shortcut or icon) for a brief period, about 7 to 8 seconds.

Based on what I've read in other issues here and after testing both Alacritty versions 0.13.1 and 0.14.0 (with and without the suggested patch), my understanding is that the problem might be related to GNOME itself. I was hopeful that the new GNOME version 45.4 would address this, but unfortunately, it has not. I genuinely miss using Alacritty.

[dougg0k]

Even if it were related to gnome, why only on alacritty?

[kanglib]

I experienced the same issue for Alacritty and Brave. Changing StartupNotify to false in the desktop file seems to solve the issue (a session restart required).

Perhaps related to #868?