alacritty: Padding does not take effect until I start typing

Which operating system does the issue occur on?

macOS 10.14.4

I have Alacritty’s window padding settings set to the default of:

  padding:
    x: 10
    y: 10

When I open a new Alacritty window, there is 0 padding, but when I begin to type the padding setting goes into effect and is set to 10px.

I’ve tried removing my config file and uninstalling and reinstalling Alacritty, but it still does this even with a fresh install.

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  • Created 5 years ago
  • Comments: 26 (13 by maintainers)

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@chrisduerr confirmed fixed on macos mojave 🎉 thank you!

Sorry, every time I save alacritty.yml. ie, when alacritty restarts.

Oh, thanks for bringing this up again @sodiumjoe. After updating my system, I can actually now reproduce this too.

What do you mean by every time I saw alacritty.yml though?

@andrewbanchich The default padding of the latest release is 3x3. This has been changed on master though, but that’s likely what you’re experiencing.

@chrisduerr Correct, the window initially has no padding at all. When I set the padding to 100, the window is larger, but the padding is still 0.

Moving the mouse doesn’t do anything, but clicking on the window does cause the padding to appear,