[BUG] UI state gets corrupted when opening notification in browser
Author: bodograumannCreated Jul 28, 2026Updated Jul 28, 2026
Labelsbug
Describe the bug When opening a notification in the browser, the layout of the UI gets broken, because line-breaks are written into the footer. I always have to resize the window, to force a redraw of the UI.
To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:
- Go to the notification page
- Press 'o' to open a notification in the browser
- Log text "10:17:38 INFO: Opening in existing instance" appears in footer (from xdg-open)
- Layout is broken
Expected behavior The layout should be preserved, e.g. by cropping the text that is written to the footer line.
Screenshots
Normaly the footer looks like this:
But after opening a notification in the browser, it looks like this:
Desktop (please complete the following information):
- OS: Arch Linux
- Alacritty
- No tmux
gh-dash version: tested with v4.24.1 and v4.25.2
Source: dlvhdr/gh-dash