espanso periodically stops triggering about espanso HOT 1 OPEN

It seems that this is a known issue with Wayland that is being attended to but delayed due to limited resources. If anyone else encounters this, I implemented a mostly-effective workaround using cron: use crontab -e to edit your local crontab, and add:

*/15 *  *  *  * /usr/local/bin/espanso restart >>/dev/null

This will restart espanso every 15 minutes. I have noticed that on Fedora 40, the little window that pops up saying "Espanso is running!" no longer steals focus as it seemed to in Fedora 39 (or there was a change in Espanso) -- such a change in focus would be really annoying occurring asynchronously so the workaround might not be viable with Fedora 39 or other distros that behave similarly. Also, even with restarting every 15 minutes there are still times that Espanso is unresponsive when I try to use it, and I suspect that, should a restart occur in the midst of typing a trigger, it will prevent Espanso from triggering. Overall, though, this seems to be a good mitigation strategy while the new Espanso team gets up to speed.

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