leftwm: Random freezing issues, hard to troubleshoot
Describe the bug Getting random cases of leftwm freezing, not responding to keyboard input, perhaps its a picom issue I’m not too sure.
To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior: Normally using my computer. Seems to freeze, I then have to use tty to restart lightdm and login again.
Expected behavior LeftWM (or otherwise) to not freeze my PC.
Screenshots Example is here
Environment:
- OS/Distro: Arch Linux, using kernel 5.10 lts
- Output of
leftwm-check
:: LeftWM version: 0.2.9 :: LeftWM git hash: 771cc98 :: Loading configuration . . . -> Configuration loaded OK :: Checking keybinds . . . -> All keybinds OK :: Checking environment . . . -> Environment OK
Additional context WM doesn’t seem to respond to any shortcuts. Happens very often, I am using the latest GitHub commits for the bleeding edge version, however no one else seems to be reporting any issue like this that I know of , so could be something else causing this.
Sorry if the issue is unclear, it’s a bit of a fleeting problem that keeps coming and going
About this issue
- Original URL
- State: closed
- Created 3 years ago
- Comments: 15 (8 by maintainers)
Oh, this is interesting: I did
killall picomandpicom --experimental-backendsbut forgot to add a&at the end. This left my WM frozen (but the scratchpad window and myewwwindows stayed there). a simplekillall picomfrom tty didn’t work, only when I killed picom frombpytop(htop would work probably as well) freed my system. Killingleftwm-workerdidn’t help.So maybe you are missing the
&in your upscript? It should bepicom -experimental-backends &orpicom --experimental-backends &> /dev/null &The issue has seemedly resolved itself, thanks for the help