Terminal alacritty missing

[findlayjy]

No description provided.

[ManuelSchneid3r]

please post the filename of its desktop entry. (the one in /usr/share/applications)

[findlayjy]

com.alacritty.Alacritty.desktop

[HarshNarayanJha]

Not missing for me. It is there in the options

[ManuelSchneid3r]

Depends on the distro I guess

[HarshNarayanJha]

It should not.

Please post the contents of com.alacritty.Alacritty.desktop AND the application plugin settings (in albert)? (like which options are checked or not)?

[findlayjy]

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
TryExec=alacritty
Exec=alacritty
Icon=com.alacritty.Alacritty
Terminal=false
Categories=System;TerminalEmulator;

Name=Alacritty
GenericName=Terminal
Comment=A fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator
StartupWMClass=Alacritty
Actions=New;

[Desktop Action New]
Name=New Terminal
Exec=alacritty

[ManuelSchneid3r]

The desktop id is based on the filename.

[HarshNarayanJha]

Hey @findlayjy
Try checking Use Exec and Use Keywords for lookup.

[findlayjy]

Thanks @HarshNarayanJha, but the problem isn't that Albert can't find Alacritty (it can), it's that it doesn't appear in the dropdown "Terminal" menu, so that when I e.g. 'Open terminal here' on an Albert search result, it will open Kitty or the Gnome terminal rather than Alacritty

[findlayjy]

The desktop id is based on the filename.

Sorry, is this intended as something I should action somehow?

[ManuelSchneid3r]

Lacking a standard for the script execution commandline interface of the terminals out in the wild we have to hardcode the parameters the terminals use. If you want this change this vote on my pull request. If your terminal broke the command line interface in the past and you are on the old version you are out of luck. Thats why we need that standard. However for as long as this PR is not merged we have to maintain the hardcoded map of terminals to their arguments (if any).

The map currently resides in https://github.com/albertlauncher/plugins/blob/main/applications/src/xdg/plugin.cpp.

If your terminal is not working I need the desktop entry file name (the desktop id) of your terminal and the (xterm -e compatible) argument that indicates that the remainder of the commandline should be interpreted as commandline to run in the terminal. Further the content of the desktop entry may help improving the heuristics currently applied to get the terminals covered.

[findlayjy]

Sorry, I think we're talking in circles a bit :) I provided the desktop entry filename above:

com.alacritty.Alacritty.desktop

And the contents of the desktop entry is in the reply after that:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
TryExec=alacritty
Exec=alacritty
Icon=com.alacritty.Alacritty
Terminal=false
Categories=System;TerminalEmulator;

Name=Alacritty
GenericName=Terminal
Comment=A fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator
StartupWMClass=Alacritty
Actions=New;

[Desktop Action New]
Name=New Terminal
Exec=alacritty

The flag that indicates the rest of the line is a command to run in the terminal is -e, so that is correct in the map. The only change would be alacritty -> com.alacritty.Alacritty (although I wonder if sometimes it is installed as just alacritty.desktop so it would be good to keep both?)

[findlayjy]

The most recent update does not seem to have fixed this. I do now have UXTerm and XTerm in the dropdown menu, but Alacritty is still missing ...

[ManuelSchneid3r]

/
Please post the logs when running a new albert instance (quit albert before) from terminal using QT_LOGGING_RULES='albert.*=true' albert.

[findlayjy]

21:37:00 �[32m[info:albert]�[0m Searching native plugins in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/albert
21:37:00 �[32m[info:albert]�[0m Hotkey set to Alt+Space
21:37:00 �[34m[debg:albert.apps]�[0m Scanning desktop entries in: /home/jamief/.local/share/applications�[0m
21:37:00 �[34m[debg:albert.apps]�[0m Skipped /home/jamief/.local/share/applications/discord-647066573147996161.desktop: Desktop entry excluded by 'NoDisplay'.�[0m
...
21:37:00 �[34m[debg:albert.apps]�[0m Scanning desktop entries in: /usr/local/share/applications�[0m
...
21:37:00 �[34m[debg:albert.apps]�[0m Valid desktop file '/usr/share/applications/debian-uxterm.desktop': 'UXTerm'�[0m
...
21:37:00 �[34m[debg:albert.apps]�[0m Valid desktop file '/usr/share/applications/com.alacritty.Alacritty.desktop': 'Alacritty'�[0m
...
21:37:00 �[34m[debg:albert.apps]�[0m Valid desktop file '/usr/share/applications/kitty.desktop': 'kitty'�[0m
...
21:37:00 �[34m[debg:albert.apps]�[0m Valid desktop file '/usr/share/applications/debian-xterm.desktop': 'XTerm'�[0m
...
21:37:01 �[32m[info:albert.files]�[0m Indexing /home/jamief
21:37:02 �[32m[info:albert.apps]�[0m Indexed 116 applications [43 ms]
21:37:11 �[32m[info:albert]�[0m Received signal 2. Quit.
21:37:12 �[34m[debg:albert.files]�[0m Storing file index to /home/jamief/.cache/albert/files/file_index.json�[0m
21:37:12 �[33m[warn:albert.files]�[0m Busy wait for file indexer.�[0m
21:37:12 �[32m[info:albert]�[0m Bye.

I've redacted the full list. Let me know if that might be relevant. But it definitely finds Alacritty; it just doesn't turn up in the list of terminals:

[findlayjy]

(Just to let you know, this is working now! The icon doesn't show up in the list for whatever reason, but functionally it works! 🥳 Thanks so much for working on this!)