hyprland: Super+E opens yazi via ghostty +new-window, 1.36s -> 39ms

settings/hyprland.nix

@@ -448,11 +448,20 @@ in
             -- away on Super+N — it is the only one of the two that can drag
             -- a file into a browser.
             --
-            -- Not `ghostty +new-window --command=yazi`: 1.3.1 corrupts the
+            -- +new-window, not `ghostty -e yazi`: bare -e force-sets
-            -- forwarded command over IPC (ghostty#11356) — the window opens
+            -- gtk-single-instance=false, so every press built a whole second
-            -- and /bin/sh is handed binary garbage — and a D-Bus-activated
+            -- Ghostty — GTK, OpenGL, font discovery — measured at 1.36s.
-            -- instance comes up without HYPRLAND_INSTANCE_SIGNATURE.
+            -- +new-window asks the running daemon over D-Bus instead: 39ms.
-            hl.bind(mod .. " + E", hl.dsp.exec_cmd("ghostty -e yazi"))
+            --
+            -- The exact spelling matters on 1.3.1:
+            --   * -e, never --command=. The latter is corrupted in transit —
+            --     the daemon logs `started subcommand path=/bin/sh` and gets
+            --     handed an empty or garbage string, so the window dies at once.
+            --   * --working-directory is mandatory and must come BEFORE -e.
+            --     Without it the auto-detected cwd is appended to the command
+            --     and corrupts it (ghostty#11356); everything after -e is
+            --     swallowed into the command itself.
+            hl.bind(mod .. " + E", hl.dsp.exec_cmd("ghostty +new-window --working-directory=${config.home.homeDirectory} -e yazi"))
             hl.bind(mod .. " + N", hl.dsp.exec_cmd("nemo"))
             hl.bind(mod .. " + R", hl.dsp.exec_cmd("${pkgs.quickshell}/bin/qs ipc call launcher toggle"))
             hl.bind(mod .. " + Q", hl.dsp.window.close())