hyprpicker: hyprpicker stops working after a couple of uses

In hyprland.conf I use a bind for hyprpicker:

bind=SUPER,C,exec,hyprpicker -a && notify-send --icon ~/.config/hypr/assets/blossom.png -u critical -t 4000 "$(wl-paste)"

It works for about 20 times. But then it suddenly breaks. When running hyprpicker in the terminal afterwards I get:

❯ hyprpicker
zsh: bus error (core dumped)  hyprpicker

Rebooting gets it working again. But then it breaks again, after a couple of uses.

I’m on AMD, and installed hyprpicker-git from the AUR.

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State: closed
Created 2 years ago
Comments: 22 (12 by maintainers)

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fix issue #17: hyprpicker stops working after a couple of uses (#18) Hyprpicker stopped working after running several times when started with option '-a'. The reason was that finish() has not been c... — committed to hyprwm/hyprpicker by sroemer 2 years ago

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I had a look into the sources:

The problem is that execlp() which is called from within Clipboard::copy() never returns (this is the intended behavior of execlp() and in case of success the new process replaces the current process). For that reason the call of g_pHyprpicker->finish() at the end of Events::handlePointerButton() is not performed and therefore the cleanup does not happen.

sroemer on Nov 27, 2022

@AmadeusWM: In my case this seems to be a controlled exit in case of an error which is handled somehow. There is no crash like in your case and therefore I cannot provide a coredump.

sroemer on Nov 27, 2022

I just stumbled over hyprpicker and quickly compiled it. Nice and useful tool! Then I saw this issue and quickly tried to replicate it.

I also see hyprpicker -a not working anymore after about 20 runs, but the behaviour is slightly different in my case. I just see the message wl_buffer@25: error 2: error accessing SHM buffer in the terminal then. Maybe that helps in finding the cause of the issue.

sroemer on Nov 27, 2022

https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/blob/main/docs/ISSUE_GUIDELINES.md

vaxerski on Nov 26, 2022