#942·gh-dash

[BUG] UI state gets corrupted when opening notification in browser

Author: bodograumannCreated Jul 28, 2026Updated Jul 28, 2026
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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:

  1. Go to the notification page
  2. Press 'o' to open a notification in the browser
  3. Log text "10:17:38 INFO: Opening in existing instance" appears in footer (from xdg-open)
  4. 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:

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But after opening a notification in the browser, it looks like this:

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Desktop (please complete the following information):

  • OS: Arch Linux
  • Alacritty
  • No tmux

gh-dash version: tested with v4.24.1 and v4.25.2