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+# Issue Guidelines
+
+First of all, please remember to:
+- Check that your issue is not a duplicate
+- Read the [FAQ](https://github.com/vaxerski/Hyprland/wiki/FAQ)
+- Read the [Configuring Page](https://github.com/vaxerski/Hyprland/wiki/Configuring-Hyprland)
+
+<br/>
+
+# Reporting suggestions
+Suggestions are welcome.
+
+Many features can be implemented using bash scripts and Hyprland sockets, read up on those [Here](https://github.com/vaxerski/Hyprland/wiki/IPC). Please do not suggest features that can be implemented as such.
+
+<br/>
+
+# Reporting bugs
+
+All bug reports should have the following:
+- Steps to reproduce
+- Expected outcome
+- Noted outcome
+
+If your bug is one that doesn't crash Hyprland, but feels like invalid behavior, that's all you need to say.
+
+If your bug crashes Hyprland, append additionally:
+- The Hyprland log
+- Coredump / Coredump analysis (with a stacktrace)
+
+## Obtaining the Hyprland log
+If you are in a TTY, and the hyprland session that crashed was the last one you launched, the log will be printed with
+```
+cat /tmp/hypr/$(ls -t /tmp/hypr/ | head -n 1)/hyprland.log
+```
+feel free to send it to a file, save, copy, etc.
+
+if you are in a Hyprland session, and you want the log of the last session, use
+```
+cat /tmp/hypr/$(ls -t /tmp/hypr/ | head -n 2 | tail -n 1)/hyprland.log
+```
+
+basically, directories in /tmp/hypr are your sessions.
+
+## Obtaining the Hyprland coredump
+If you are on systemd, you can simply use
+```
+coredumpctl
+```
+then go to the end (press END on your keyboard) and remember the PID of the last `Hyprland` occurrence. It's the first number after the time, for example `2891`.
+
+exit coredumpctl (ctrl+c) and use
+```
+coredumpctl info [PID]
+```
+where `[PID]` is the PID you remembered.
+