[BUG] Shell freezes after hovering over any tray icon

[peachey2k2]

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• I have read the above instructions and am sure that this is supposed to be posted here.
• I've successfully updated to the latest versions following the updating guide.
• I've successfully updated the system packages to the latest.
• I've ticked the checkboxes without reading their contents

Step 2. Version info

Version info

Packages: not on Arch

fatal: not a git repository: '/home/pe/.config/.git'
Caelestia: not installed

Shell: version helper not available

Quickshell:
    quickshell 0.2.1, revision tag-v0.2.1, distributed by: Nixpkgs

Step 3. Describe the issue

Everything works as expected up until I hover over any tray icon, which immediately freezes Quickshell and makes it unresponsive to any keyboard and mouse input. It also doesn't update anything it renders, and uses 100% CPU.

This started happening after I updated my system last night. It does indeed work properly if I try with the last Nix generation, but not the current one.

The only change I can see was the updated flakes. I did try to undo that with a ?rev= url to undo the last commit.

I assume this is probably due to a Quickshell update and not Caelestia though, but I might be missing something.

I'll link my NixOS config in case that helps:
https://github.com/peachey2k2/nixos/tree/e73383ae8fe02436039abe4d62e01877387220d6

Logs

  INFO: Launching config: "/nix/store/4pl6z31fp5wg83m5q1cs7n6l1sgcs84z-caelestia-shell-1.0.0/share/caelestia-shell/shell.qml"
  INFO: Shell ID: "cc3d03364714386ffcb49d4bf5707ea1" Path ID "cc3d03364714386ffcb49d4bf5707ea1"
  INFO: Saving logs to "/run/user/1000/quickshell/by-id/2n7zbnv5t/log.qslog"
  WARN: CachingImageManager::sha256sum: failed to open "/home/pe/.face"
  WARN scene: QML Pane at @modules/dashboard/Content.qml[97:17]: Binding loop detected for property "active":
qs:@/qs/modules/dashboard/Content.qml:131:52
  WARN: CachingImageManager::createCache: failed to read "/home/pe/.face"                                                                                                                 WARN: CachingImageManager::sha256sum: failed to open "/home/pe/.face"
  WARN scene: QML CachingImage at @modules/dashboard/dash/User.qml[37:9]: Cannot open: file:///home/pe/.face
  WARN: CachingImageManager::createCache: failed to read "/home/pe/.face"
  WARN scene: QML Wrapper at @modules/drawers/Panels.qml[35:5]: Binding loop detected for property "implicitWidth":
qs:@/qs/modules/osd/Wrapper.qml:46:13
  WARN scene: QML CachingImage at @modules/dashboard/dash/User.qml[37:9]: Cannot open: file:///home/pe/.face
  WARN scene: @modules/dashboard/Media.qml[227:17]: Unable to assign [undefined] to bool
  WARN scene: @modules/dashboard/Media.qml[326:17]: Unable to assign [undefined] to MenuItem_QMLTYPE_315*
  WARN: Could not load icon "preferences-system-network?fallback=image-missing" at size QSize(2, 2) from request
  WARN: Could not load icon "preferences-system-network?fallback=image-missing" at size QSize(2, 2) from request
  WARN: Could not load icon "preferences-system-network?fallback=image-missing" at size QSize(37, 37) from request
  WARN: Could not load icon "multimedia-volume-control?fallback=image-missing" at size QSize(2, 2) from request
  WARN: Could not load icon "multimedia-volume-control?fallback=image-missing" at size QSize(2, 2) from request
  WARN: Could not load icon "multimedia-volume-control?fallback=image-missing" at size QSize(37, 37) from request
  WARN qt.svg.draw: The requested buffer size is too big, ignoring
  WARN qt.svg.draw: The requested buffer size is too big, ignoring
  WARN quickshell.dbus: Could not launch service org.freedesktop.UPower.PowerProfiles: QDBusError(org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown, The name org.freedesktop.UPower.PowerProfiles was not provided by any .service files)
  WARN quickshell.service.powerprofiles: Could not start PowerProfilesDaemon. The PowerProfiles service will not work.

Reminder

• I agree that it's usually impossible for others to help me without my logs.

[Zerodya]

Same exact issue here after updating flake, except it doesn't use 100% CPU in my case.

[soramanew]

Can you specify which quickshell rev caused the error please? (Or between which 2 revs did the error occur)

[peachey2k2]

@Zerodya I meant to say 100% on a single thread, I should have been clearer.

@soramanew I tried testing with revs up till c5c438f1cd1a76660a8658ef929a3d19e968e2ce, which is more than 1 month old. None of them made a difference though, weirdly enough.

[alpenstorm]

this is exactly what is happening for me too. I've tried restarting the shell, but it the message An instance of this configuration is already running. I'm on Arch Linux and I created an issue here

[peachey2k2]

@alpenstorm caelestia shell -k doesn't work for me either, but pkill-ing it, or with any other way to force kill it works.

[Zerodya]

@peachey2k2 I see, however for me it still doesn't use 100% of any core anyway.

@alpenstorm I pkill quickshell, then start caelestia again.

[alpenstorm]

@peachey2k2 @Zerodya the quickshell 0.2.1, revision 1ddb355121484bcac70f49edd4bd006b1d3a753e revision fixed this issue for me. Maybe building the latest quickshell git will fix the problem?

[alpenstorm]

specifically this commit

[peachey2k2]

Nope. That didn't help either. I'll stick to disabling the tray for now

[Stazis555]

Is it caelestia related? noticed the same (not tray related though) freezing behavior for different applications (vesktop, firefox) after nixos flake updates on hyprland.

[Somfic]

I'm having this problem too, might be hyprland related

[Razkaroth]

Can confirm that using this version of quickshell works correctly.

@peachey2k2 @Zerodya the quickshell 0.2.1, revision 1ddb355121484bcac70f49edd4bd006b1d3a753e revision fixed this issue for me. Maybe building the latest quickshell git will fix the problem?

@peachey2k2 did you setup an overlay to override which version of quickshell the caelestia flake uses?

[Lovelines111]

I was able to fix this with:

    caelestia-shell = {
      url = "github:caelestia-dots/shell";
      inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
      inputs.quickshell.url = "git+https://git.outfoxxed.me/outfoxxed/quickshell?ref=master"; # <--- This line is the fix.
    };

Not sure how optimal of a fix this is because Caelestia is still unusually laggy, but hovering over tray doesn't crash it anymore.