sway/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.md
Rouven Czerwinski 30afb6c14a ISSUE_TEMPLATE: the wiki is community maintained
Mention that the github wiki may contain outdated information scripts
and old workarounds and that sway the sway project does not provide
support for it.
2020-12-18 11:21:35 +01:00

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---
name: Bugs
about: Crashes and other bugs
labels: 'bug'
---
### Please read the following before submitting:
- Please do NOT submit bug reports for questions. Ask questions on IRC at #sway on irc.freenode.net.
- Proprietary graphics drivers, including nvidia, are not supported. Please use the open source equivalents, such as nouveau, if you would like to use Sway.
- Problems with the Wayland version of Firefox are likely to be Firefox bugs. Start by submitting your issue to the Firefox Bugzilla and come back here only after they confirm otherwise.
- Please do NOT submit issues for information from the github wiki. The github wiki is community maintained and therefore may contain outdated information, scripts that don't work or osbolete workarounds.
If you fix a script or find outdated information, don't hesitate to adjust the wiki page.
### Please fill out the following:
- **Sway Version:**
- `swaymsg -t get_version` or `sway -v`
- **Debug Log:**
- Run `sway -d 2> ~/sway.log` from a TTY and upload it to a pastebin, such as gist.github.com.
- This will record information about sway's activity. Please try to keep the reproduction as brief as possible and exit sway.
- **Configuration File:**
- Please try to produce with the default configuration.
- If you cannot reproduce with the default configuration, please try to find the minimal configuration to reproduce.
- Upload the config to a pastebin such as gist.github.com.
- **Stack Trace:**
- This is only needed if sway crashes.
- If you use systemd, you should be able to open the coredump of the most recent crash with gdb with
`coredumpctl gdb sway` and then `bt full` to obtain the stack trace.
- If the lines mentioning sway or wlroots have `??` for the location, your binaries were built without debug symbols. Please compile both sway and wlroots from source and try to reproduce.
- **Description:**
- The steps you took in plain English to reproduce the problem.