Alacritty Weirdness (No typing after launch)

General system Applications
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This is new. Starting today. Not sure if update related. Rebooted and still persists.

steps:

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^ launch alacritty from plank

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2305×124 31.1 KB

^ try to type. it can’t be typed in. App unresponsive.

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3275×122 68.7 KB

^ instead the alacritty output mutates into some strange text box in the lower right of my screen, on top of the task bar.

Truly a WTH situation.

If I launch Alacritty then click inside it, I can use it…this double move is new.

When I rebooted goofy lower right box went away. But still can’t open a type yay (for instance) without the double-move

Sanity check–

launch gedit, type stuff immediately, success

launch libre-writer, type stuff immediately, success

launch Alacritty, type stuff immediately, fail

Right now I’d call this mosquito-level annoyance; small potatoes. But anyone have any ideas?

Thanks if you do

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Use another terminal, like xfce4-terminal, to launch alacritty to see if it shows any errors. Also, do you have an Nvidia card? Updated today?

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launched clean from xterm meaning no output whatsoever.

no Nvidia card just some old thinkcentre integrated card

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why not remove alacritty from plank and then re add it.

Also are you aware of plank-reloaded?

yay -Syu plank-reloaded

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that did not work.

I’m reading about the other plank right now, thank you.

I’m curious how you are connecting Alacritty launching inactive with the dock, however? it’s interesting

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can you post the contents of you alacritty.desktop file
maybe even post the contents of the alacritty.dockitem

I don’t understand your question here? I didn’t do anything special to add alacritty to my plank.

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When I launch the app from Cinnamon menu or plank, it cannot be written in. It opens dead. You have to touch it with the mouse to use it. It used to be just open the terminal and type.

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For me That is how it still works for me. So maybe you have a setting issue with Cinnamon? do you have another account to test?

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ahh–a setting is the most likely. will make another identity and test that out. after dinner and beers.

If it comes alive with a new user, then there’s a problem in my regular identity.

If Alacritty stays dead with the new user then I don’t know what that means.

May -Rns and then -S later as well. Thanks for this idea. If there’s an AUR version I could test it as well.

Also you were on to something with the .desktop file the tiniest of glitches start there, too.

Will report back.

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