Graphics tablet keeps locking up my computer (and other bugs)... Alacritty?

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I think the problem is “Alacritty”… server/client-side decorations maybe?

  • When I open Alacritty for the first time I can’t alt-tab to it instantly, it keeps loading for a while.
  • My tablet cursor hides when focusing my Alacritty window. That behavior propagates to other windows (ex. Firefox). That’s what made my tablet unusable and sometimes locked up my whole GNOME environment. Still I don’t know why.
  • The problem doesn’t happen on: niri, sway, hyprland. Just GNOME.
  • Happens with windows decorations enabled or disabled. The bug keeps being the same.
# ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml
[window]
	decorations = "None"
# ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml
[window]
	decorations = "Full"
  • The bug doesn’t happen with mouse tho.

On other bugs:

  • Can’t change the table button function on the left-options, the windows cut’s it. Took the photo with phone camera (prtsc disabled by menu).

    Possible improvements: Spawn the menu at the center, not at the most left position + Make a better menu maybe? + Fix the blurry text on the menu. +
    I would use the “Tab” key for navigation but the menu inhibits my key as expected really.
  • Option “Left Mousebutton Click” on the pen bind menu acts as Middle click and not Left click.

Help

  • How could I change the function of my tablet buttons using the gsettings command? I feel more comfortable doing that.
  • How do I change tablet area? If I could on GNOME, how to change the area depending on the application focused? Krita with full area and firefox with reduced area for example.

How could I report this to gnome? where do they listen more? Gitlab? GNOME forums? Fedora has a good track record of answering, that’s why I posted here. Also I thought it was a kernel driver bug Digibend/hid_uclogic. Installing kernel drivers is a pain with SecureBoot enabled tho. My problems were somehow worse on Silverblue 41 (rpm-ostree rebase).

Update:

  • After throughout investigation (rebooting a bunch of times) I could attest that the bug is reproducible by starting any app in Gnome after booting. That’s the annoying part sigh. How could I debug it? how could I know what is GNOME doing with libwacom and libinput, it completely locks up my computer, keeps hiding the cursor when doesn’t lock up. My mouse appears but nor any keys (not even Ctrl + Alt + F5), nor any mouse click work. Sigh I’m gonna rebase to 41 now, it’s in Beta still but I can’t stand it anymore aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

After a Rebase to Gnome 47 and Fedora 41, the same bug, locking up my computer, by a singular pointer device…

I’d try GNOME on Xorg; with a Wacom tablet I had GNOME 47 on F41 beta crash completely as soon as I unplugged it after exiting osu! on Wayland (there’s a RHBZ report), but no problems from Xorg session.

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