alacritty: Alacritty --title seems to not set Wayland title

Running the latest master under Sway/Wayland and Gentoo it seems like running Alacritty with -t foo doesn’t correctly set the title on Wayland. For example, I have the following line in my Sway config

set $menu gnome-terminal --profile aopen -t aopen --class aopen -- ~/bin/aopen
for_window [title="aopen"] floating enable, border none

This works file, here’s an example

Changing that line to use Alacritty, looks like this

set $menu ~/src/alacritty/target/release/alacritty --title aopen --class aopen -e ~/bin/aopen
for_window [title="aopen"] floating enable, border none

And yields the following, incorrect, result

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 5 years ago
Reactions: 2
Comments: 27 (24 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

Add change log entry for Wayland title fix Fixes #2104. — committed to chrisduerr/alacritty by chrisduerr 5 years ago
Add change log entry for Wayland title fix Fixes #2104. — committed to alacritty/alacritty by chrisduerr 5 years ago

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Finally! And it looks good to me - title is set in new instances as expected.

Thanks for your help, @chrisduerr

rkanati on Feb 14, 2019

Awesome! Thanks everyone for all the hard work!

lovesegfault on Mar 16, 2019

@rkanati Glutin 0.20 has actually been released and it does include the desired functionality.

Thanks @nostdm for the confirmation. I’ve created #2180 to update the change log entry to show this change.

chrisduerr on Mar 15, 2019

Not sure if the fix has propagated all the way, but with the current build of alacritty (master), running alacritty --title=foo creates a window with a blank/null title in sway.

The same thing happens when I do alacritty -e vim foo.txt the title is blank.

Update: Setting set title and set titlestring=%t in vimrc fixes the second issue for me so that vim sets the window title instead of alacritty.

nostdm on Mar 14, 2019

I found a workaround! Apparently alacritty does set app_id correctly! So the following works:

set $menu ~/src/alacritty/target/release/alacritty -d 80 20 -t aopen --class aopen -e ~/bin/aopen
for_window [app_id="aopen"] floating enable, border none

lovesegfault on Feb 11, 2019

@nostdm @trimental A quick check of glutin 0.19’s Cargo.toml shows it depends on winit 0.18, which doesn’t include trimental’s fix… because glutin 0.19 was released in November. Dang.

A new release of glutin sure would be nice.

Edit: It looks like the maintainers are trying to release 0.20, but they’re having their own problems. Hopefully soon.

rkanati on Mar 15, 2019

https://github.com/tomaka/winit/pull/770 Does this fix that?

trimental on Feb 12, 2019