Some apps such as terminal, telegram desktop are always unknown

[Dev-cmyser]

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• OS debian12 Bookworm :
• ActivityWatch version v0.12.2:

Some apps such as terminal, telegram desktop are always unknown!

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[paucosta-tutrastero]

Telegram does not have a window tittle, and judging by your screenshot, you might be using a terminal without decorators, and thus ActivityWatch cannot get info about the focused window.

One work around for telegram could be to use it in a web browser, and use use aw-watcher-web to get the tab title.

About the terminal, if you do not mind loosing the granularity of knowing which terminal program are you running, you could class all the unknown as a terminal category. Or if you don't mind loosing the sleek look, activate the window decorators for the terminal

[johan-bjareholt]

Sounds like you are running Wayland?

We do unfortunately not support that properly yet, but there are some workarounds. See https://github.com/ActivityWatch/activitywatch/issues/92

[2e3s]

Telegram has a window title. This problem comes from XWayland which doesn't identify all apps under KDE. KWin knows their titles but it doesn't communicate names by XWayland implementation. E.g. this script is able to read all the necessary information including Telegram window titles as I remember.

[brayo-pip]

Unable to reproduce but the default aw-watcher-window was able to get the firefox window name.