Hyprland crashes upon git reset --hard if hyprland.conf is under version control

[mbwgh]

Like my other dotfiles, I manage the hyprland.conf using a bare git repository.
That is, I have an alias

alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME'

in my ~/.bashrc, and use commands like config add <somefile> && config commit -m "Did some changes".

For the hyprland.conf file, I can reproduce a "crash" using the following steps:

• Edit the configuration to some new, valid state (e.g. toggle natural_scroll)
• Save the file, check that the new options have successfully been applied
• Do a config reset --hard, thereby undoing any changes to the hyprland.conf

Hyprland will then immediately revert to some default configuration state. That is:

• No custom keybinds apply. I can not open terminals, and I can not open or switch between workspaces.
• All custom CSS is not applied, which is visible in things like border radius and padding between open windows reverting to some default.
• Changing to hyprland.conf are no longer detected

At this point, all I can really do is reboot or start a new hyprland session.

Some files:

• Output of cat $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/hypr/$(ls -t $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/hypr/ | head -n 2 | tail -n 1)/hyprland.log > crash.log: crash.log
• Output of sudo journalctl -S today > journalctl.log: journalctl.log
• My hyprland.conf:
  hyprland.conf.txt

While I have logs enabled, a crash report does not seem to exist in any of the locations described in the documentation.

Maybe somebody with more insight can give a hint about what's going on here?

[vaxerski]

Are you under uwsm? I've seen that happen only under uwsm

[mbwgh]

Yes, I use uswm via having the following in ~/.bash_profile:

if uwsm check may-start; then
    exec uwsm start hyprland.desktop
fi

[vaxerski]

ok I've had enough of uwsm

[vaxerski]

I've removed all recommendations of uwsm from the wiki.

[Vladimir-csp]

Might be a wee bit premature?

[fufexan]

@mbwgh can you try reproducing without uwsm?

[mbwgh]

I just did, i.e. after commenting out the uwsm from bash_profile and starting hyprland manually after reboot.
Still, the behavior remains the same.

[EduardoPazz]

lol the issue wasn't related to uwsm at all apparently