diff --git a/settings/hyprland.nix b/settings/hyprland.nix
index f4342e9..d64313a 100644
--- a/settings/hyprland.nix
+++ b/settings/hyprland.nix
@@ -447,7 +447,13 @@ in
             -- palette instead of needing a GTK restart. Nemo stays one key
             -- away on Super+N — it is the only one of the two that can drag
             -- a file into a browser.
-            hl.bind(mod .. " + E", hl.dsp.exec_cmd("ghostty -e yazi"))
+            --
+            -- +new-window, not `-e yazi`: -e force-sets gtk-single-instance=false
+            -- so the CLI args are respected, which means every press builds a
+            -- whole second Ghostty application — GTK init, config parse, font
+            -- discovery, renderer setup. +new-window instead asks the running
+            -- instance over D-Bus to open a window, and forwards --command.
+            hl.bind(mod .. " + E", hl.dsp.exec_cmd("ghostty +new-window --working-directory=~/ --command=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())