Compiling produces notification spam on NixOS

[danielmckinnonanderson]

Zig Version

0.15.1

Steps to Reproduce and Observed Behavior

When compiling any Zig program with the latest release of the compiler, while the compilation occurs I receive a lot of desktop notifications with messages that seem to be formatted incorrectly. Using older versions of the Zig compiler (0.13, 0.14) does not produce any notifications.
I am on NixOS version 23.11.7870, and XFCE 4.18 for the desktop environment.

Expected Behavior

I would like to not receive desktop notifications for compilation, or if I'm going to receive them, just one notification with a meaningful message. Alternatively, Zig could respect some sort of environment variable to disable the notification hooks entirely.

[alexrp]

This looks suspiciously like #24564. What is that terminal emulator you're using?

[danielmckinnonanderson]

Thanks for the quick reply. I am using kitty for my terminal.

[alexrp]

Can you share your kitty configuration? I just tried building the Zig compiler in kitty (on Ubuntu if that matters) and didn't get any notifications.

[danielmckinnonanderson]

My kitty.conf file:

font_family Iosevka Nerd Font Mono
font_size 20
disable_ligatures cursor
adjust_line_height 92%

dynamic_background_opacity yes
background_opacity 0.90

include current-theme.conf

[danielmckinnonanderson]

Do we think kitty is the culprit? I can try a different terminal emulator and see if I still get notifications.

[danielmckinnonanderson]

Tried compiling using alacritty as my terminal emulator and did not receive any desktop notifications. Seems to be a kitty issue, not a Zig compiler issue. Will investigate more on my own. Thank you for your help!

[fardragon]

It's a bit of a contentious issue in kitty: kovidgoyal/kitty#8011 the escape sequences should be discarded here evnoj/kitty-ev@847433d unless you're running a version from before that commit

[vovkasm]

Same on macos with iTerm (Build 3.5.14), if setting "Send escape sequence-generated alerts" is enabled.