NAVI // ISSUES

known issues, tracked in the open.

Every bug we know about — ours and upstream's — with its status and what we're doing about it. No silent known-issues list buried in a wiki. If you hit something that isn't here, file it: the tracker is open and we'd rather hear it from you than discover it ourselves.

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upstream issues affecting navi

navi builds on other people's software — Debian, Chromium, Microsoft Edge, GTK. When upstream breaks, our users feel it. So we file evidence-rich reports, track them publicly, and say plainly what each one blocks. This is what upstream citizenship looks like from the distro side.

EDGE-LINUX-001

Copilot toolbar button does nothing on Linux

reported upstream

What's broken: in Microsoft Edge on Linux, the Copilot toolbar button is present but non-functional — clicking it does nothing. The feature works on other platforms, so this is a Linux-specific gap, not a disabled feature.

What we've done: submitted through Edge's built-in feedback system on 23 September 2026 with a screenshot, a screen recording, and a detailed write-up, identifying as a navi maintainer evaluating Edge as a reliable distro browser option. The full submission is logged in our public Edge-on-Linux feedback tracker.

Update — likely root cause: community reports indicate the Linux build ships without the HubApps profile file the Copilot sidebar needs — placing it in ~/.config/microsoft-edge/Default/ restores the sidebar. That reframes this from "button does nothing" to a Linux packaging gap, which is a much more actionable report. The same symptoms are tracked publicly at MicrosoftEdge/DevTools#278 across Mint, NixOS, Fedora, and Arch. We're folding both into our tracker. (We're not shipping the manual file-drop as a fix — downloading an unsigned profile file from a stranger's dotfiles repo is not something a distro should bless.)

What it blocks: nothing we ship — Edge is an evaluated option, not a default. But it matters for the evaluation: a flagship AI feature dead on arrival on Linux is exactly the kind of paper cut that keeps a browser out of a distro's recommendations.

EDGE-LINUX-002

"Use system title bar and borders" has no effect on Linux

reported upstream

What's broken: enabling Use system title bar and borders in Edge's appearance settings produces no visual change on Linux. The toggle exists, the window ignores it.

What we've done: submitted alongside EDGE-LINUX-001 on 23 September 2026, same evidence package, same public log. Two issues, one submission session.

What it blocks: desktop integration. navi is a coherent desktop; a browser that can't hand its window chrome to the system compositor is a browser that always looks slightly foreign. Small, visible, fixable.

navi's own issues

Our bugs, owned. Fixes land on the eiri channel first and ride toward stable when they're proven on real hardware.

NAVI-MOD-001

launching a mod steals focus from a floating window behind it

known

What's happening: launching a mod while another window is already floating also centers the pre-existing window behind it. The likely cause is overly broad match criteria in mod-open.sh.

What we're doing: nothing, for now — deliberately. The common case (no floating window behind the launch) works correctly, and we'd rather not churn the launcher on a cosmetic edge case while bigger eiri work is in flight. It's documented here so nobody has to rediscover it.

NAVI-OSD-001

volume OSD daemon can serve a stale UI after updates

fixed

What was happening: the volume OSD is a single-flight daemon, so replacing its script didn't replace the running server — the old code kept serving the old UI and a real fix looked broken on updated machines.

What we did: the daemon now self-retires stale servers — a pidfile carrying the script's code id, a client-side staleness check before connecting, and /proc cmdline verification before signaling anything.

Confirmed fixed on real hardware, 23 September 2026 — updates now show the new UI immediately.

NAVI-WAYBAR-001

waybar neon color cycling

fixed

What was new: waybar text and pill borders animate through the nightshadeNeon cycle — cyan to pink to green — with state cues (battery warnings, mute, idle inhibitor) keeping their solid colors via animation: none.

Confirmed fixed on real hardware, 23 September 2026 — working as expected and looking beautiful.

hit something? file it.

The full tracker lives on GitHub — every issue, every discussion, open to everyone:

github.com/xvoidsx/navi/issues

What makes a report actionable:

On the eiri channel, rough edges are expected — reporting them is contributing. On stable, a bug report is a gift: it means someone cared enough to tell us instead of quietly switching distros.