eww: [BUG] Eww does not close sometimes, even when running `eww kill`

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Description of the bug

Eww does not close sometimes, not sure why It happens, but I believe it is randomly. Running eww kill does also not close eww, and I am forced to end eww within htop.

Log:

┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃Initializing eww daemon┃
┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛
    

(eww:8579): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 15:25:47.271: ../../../gobject/gsignal.c:2736: instance '0x564dc471c500' has no handler with id '923'
 2022-05-02T13:25:47.304Z ERROR eww::error_handling_ctx > sending response from main thread

Caused by:
    0: Failed to send success response from application thread
    1: channel closed
 2022-05-02T13:25:47.380Z INFO  eww::app    > Opening window widget
 2022-05-02T13:25:47.381Z INFO  eww::ipc_server > IPC server initialized
Action failed with error: Tried to close window named 'widget', but no such window was open
Action failed with error: Tried to close window named 'widget', but no such window was open
 2022-05-02T13:26:06.196Z INFO  eww::server             > Shutting down eww daemon...
 2022-05-02T13:26:06.196Z INFO  eww::app                > Received kill command, stopping server!
 2022-05-02T13:26:06.196Z INFO  eww::server             > main application thread finished

But, eww stays open, and I have to end it with htop. It does not happen every time, but most of the time.

Reproducing the issue

No idea, honestly, seems to only happen with that specific config. Trying the bar example config runs fine, and eww can close properly every time. So I’d bet writing a new config here for a reproduction would likely result in the config working fine.

Expected behaviour

Close the widget. That’s about as detailed as it gets.

Additional context

This does not affect functionality, from what I know. Changing windowtype or stacking also does not affect it.

About this issue

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State: open
Created 2 years ago
Reactions: 3
Comments: 16 (2 by maintainers)

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This issue does not occur when I install it by using yay in arch, it only occurs when I manually build source code in ubuntu.

DreamMaoMao on Nov 24, 2023

I have the same issue - Except for that my issue happens to start a new instance of eww that i can run eww kill on, but the “old” instance is still open which doesn’t respond to any commands from eww. The only way to close it so far is to run the likes of pkill eww and then starting the daemon again.

I’m getting the error

INFO eww::app > Opening window dashboard
ERROR eww::error_handling_ctx > sending response from main thread

Caused by:
    0: Failed to send success response from application thread
    1: channel closed

EDIT: The error does not always open a new instance, but it does quite frequently

madser123 on Jul 28, 2022