Massive config errors after newest hyprland update

[hunteratlas]

I have used this rice for the last 6-8 months, updating my system through pacman and yay regularly with no issues.
After the newest update to hyprland I now have 272 Config errors at the bottom of my screen. I did a git pull of the caelestia folder and various things changed in my configuration but i still have the errors at the bottom after a reboot. At some point Caelestia-Shell itself seems to decoupled or something (probably a user error at one point with an update in yay) and now i am many versions behind with the usage of "caelestia -v" showing that the shell isn't even installed but reflecting the version is a much older version. When trying to install the newest version over it, i get "error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)" and I do not know how to proceed. I would like to rectify this but I'm still learning the ways of the arch linux

OS: CachyOS
here is my version info:

Packages:
caelestia-shell not installed
caelestia-meta not installed
caelestia-cli 1.0.2-1

Caelestia:
Last commit: ed83918
Commit message: hyprland: fix script shebang (#48)

Shell:
caelestia-shell 1.3.4, revision 24b3134, distrubuted by: Unset

Quickshell:
quickshell 0.2.1, revision 6742148cf4a8415a9c51fdeb11d8c3ea716c2e14, distributed by: AUR (package: quickshell-git)

Local copy of shell found:
Unable to determine last merged upstream commit.
fatal: not a git repository: '/home/hunter/.config/quickshell/caelestia/.git'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/caelestia", line 8, in
sys.exit(main())
~~~~^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/caelestia/init.py", line 8, in main
print_version()
~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/caelestia/utils/version.py", line 72, in print_version
shell_ver = subprocess.check_output(
["git", "--git-dir", local_shell_dir / ".git", "rev-list", "--format=%B", "--max-count=1", "HEAD"],
text=True,
)
File "/usr/lib/python3.13/subprocess.py", line 472, in check_output
return run(*popenargs, stdout=PIPE, timeout=timeout, check=True,
~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
**kwargs).stdout
^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3.13/subprocess.py", line 577, in run
raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args,
output=stdout, stderr=stderr)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['git', '--git-dir', PosixPath('/home/hunter/.config/quickshell/caelestia/.git'), 'rev-list', '--format=%B', '--max-count=1', 'HEAD']' returned non-zero exit status 128.

[BlackInOne69]

Fix for Caelestia Update Error

If you encounter the same error, follow these steps:

Navigate to the Caelestia folder
This is usually where you installed Caelestia. For example:

cd ~/.local/share/caelestia

Backup your changes
If you’ve modified any files, either:

Stash your changes using:

git stash

Or manually back them up elsewhere.

Pull the latest updates

git pull

Merge your changes (if needed)
If you stashed your changes, apply them back using:

git stash pop

[hunteratlas]

tried it again and now i have 1285 errors...all of my files need a merge it looks like since i tried your git stash command
I question if part of it is caelestia shell being out of date but it won't allow me to update as outlined above.

[hunteratlas]

i borked it even more following this... now my Super key doesn't pull up my applications and when i open anything with a macro if it, it opens 4 instances... i feel like its reading the macro multiple times how do i fix this?!

[BlackInOne69]

If that's happening i suggest you to don't stash and just pull the changes using git pull. it will pull the new config and just restart the session. that's what i did and had to manually reconfigure my changes. that's what helped me. Im about to sleep , hope to see your fix by tomorrow morning

[hunteratlas]

i manually removed or fixed the errors within my configs but still have the problem where using Super key only pulls up the app drawer when i use a macro (like Super+E). THEN the macro opens two instances of the program and opens the drawer. I'm at a loss and this wasn't an issue before the git pull

[BlackInOne69]

that what happening, your own stashed code and pull code got overridden, check your variables and keybindings to see if its changed or not and fix it, if that doesnt work just pull a clean config in the directory you installed caelestia.. simply using git pull command. this will copy clean config but your own changes will get lost though

[MiguxJS]

I ran into the same issue after a recent Hyprland update and in my case the root cause was old windowrule syntax.

I check the changelogs and i noticed this:

Hyprland recently changed rule parsing and many rules that used to work now need to be migrated to windowrulev2.
For example, this line was throwing config errors for me:

windowrule = opacity $windowOpacity override, fullscreen:0

Changing it to:

windowrulev2 = opacity $windowOpacity override, fullscreen:0

immediately stopped the errors.
After that, migrating the rest of my windowrule entries to windowrulev2 fixed all config errors.

This doesn’t seem to be a Caelestia or quickshell issue, but rather Hyprland rejecting old rule syntax after the update.

Hope this helps :D

[MiguxJS]

I just find this page to convert my config: https://itsohen.github.io/hyprrulefix/
I hope this can help you bro :D