Hyprland/docs/ISSUE_GUIDELINES.md

# Issue Guidelines

First of all, please remember to:
- Check that your issue is not a duplicate
- Read the [FAQ](https://github.com/vaxerski/Hyprland/wiki/FAQ)
- Read the [Configuring Page](https://github.com/vaxerski/Hyprland/wiki/Configuring-Hyprland)

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# Reporting suggestions
Suggestions are welcome.

Many features can be implemented using bash scripts and Hyprland sockets, read up on those [Here](https://github.com/vaxerski/Hyprland/wiki/IPC). Please do not suggest features that can be implemented as such.

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# Reporting bugs

All bug reports should have the following:
- Steps to reproduce
- Expected outcome
- Noted outcome

If your bug is one that doesn't crash Hyprland, but feels like invalid behavior, that's all you need to say.

If your bug crashes Hyprland, append additionally:
- The Hyprland log
- Coredump / Coredump analysis (with a stacktrace)
- Your config

**Important**: Please do NOT use any package for reporting bugs! Clone and compile from source.

## Obtaining the Hyprland log
If you are in a TTY, and the hyprland session that crashed was the last one you launched, the log will be printed with
```
cat /tmp/hypr/$(ls -t /tmp/hypr/ | head -n 1)/hyprland.log
```
feel free to send it to a file, save, copy, etc.

if you are in a Hyprland session, and you want the log of the last session, use
```
cat /tmp/hypr/$(ls -t /tmp/hypr/ | head -n 2 | tail -n 1)/hyprland.log
```

basically, directories in /tmp/hypr are your sessions.

## Obtaining the Hyprland coredump
If you are on systemd, you can simply use
```
coredumpctl
```
then go to the end (press END on your keyboard) and remember the PID of the last `Hyprland` occurrence. It's the first number after the time, for example `2891`.

exit coredumpctl (ctrl+c) and use
```
coredumpctl info [PID]
```
where `[PID]` is the PID you remembered.

## Obtaining the debug Hyprland coredump
In very rare cases, the normal coredump would not be enough.
If that's the case, you could try obtaining the debug coredump.
1. [Compile Hyprland with debug mode](http://wiki.hyprland.org/Contributing-and-Debugging/#build-in-debug-mode)
> Note: The config file used will be `hyprlandd.conf` instead of `hyprland.conf`

2. Reproduce the crash in debug mode.
3. `env DEBUGINFOD_URLS="https://debuginfod.archlinux.org/" coredumpctl debug [PID]`(see section above)
4. Wait until the `(gdb)` appears
5. If gdb asks you `press y to continue without paging?` Type `y`
6. `bt -full`
7. copy the output of the command and provide that.