i3 FAQ - Individual question feedhttps://faq.i3wm.org/questions/Frequently asked questions and answers about the i3 window managerenCopyright i3, 2012Tue, 29 Jul 2014 07:15:20 +0000i3 hanginghttps://faq.i3wm.org/question/4301/i3-hanging/Sometimes lately, i3 hangs. I can't change window focus, either by the shortcuts nor mouse. No keyboard shortcut works so I can't restart or reload i3. I can still use the window where there was focus and if it gets closed ,I can used the one that gets focused next. If I happen to be in a terminal, running i3-msg restart or i3-msg reload just doesn't return, and sits idle while nothing happens. I think it's correlated with an application (Newshosting browser) but I can't consistently reproduce it and it's quite annoying to try because I don't know how to fix it once it happens other than rebooting or restarting the gdm service from another terminal. Has anyone seen this happen, and does anyone have a suggestion as to how to avoid it, fix it, or make i3 wake up in these situations?Sat, 19 Jul 2014 17:11:59 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/4301/i3-hanging/Comment by Michael for <p>Sometimes lately, i3 hangs. I can't change window focus, either by the shortcuts nor mouse. No keyboard shortcut works so I can't restart or reload i3. I can still use the window where there was focus and if it gets closed ,I can used the one that gets focused next. If I happen to be in a terminal, running i3-msg restart or i3-msg reload just doesn't return, and sits idle while nothing happens.</p> <p>I think it's correlated with an application (Newshosting browser) but I can't consistently reproduce it and it's quite annoying to try because I don't know how to fix it once it happens other than rebooting or restarting the gdm service from another terminal.</p> <p>Has anyone seen this happen, and does anyone have a suggestion as to how to avoid it, fix it, or make i3 wake up in these situations?</p> https://faq.i3wm.org/question/4301/i3-hanging/?comment=4345#comment-4345If you can reproduce it, file a bug at http://bugs.i3wm.org/Tue, 29 Jul 2014 07:15:20 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/4301/i3-hanging/?comment=4345#comment-4345Comment by tigrezno for <p>Sometimes lately, i3 hangs. I can't change window focus, either by the shortcuts nor mouse. No keyboard shortcut works so I can't restart or reload i3. I can still use the window where there was focus and if it gets closed ,I can used the one that gets focused next. If I happen to be in a terminal, running i3-msg restart or i3-msg reload just doesn't return, and sits idle while nothing happens.</p> <p>I think it's correlated with an application (Newshosting browser) but I can't consistently reproduce it and it's quite annoying to try because I don't know how to fix it once it happens other than rebooting or restarting the gdm service from another terminal.</p> <p>Has anyone seen this happen, and does anyone have a suggestion as to how to avoid it, fix it, or make i3 wake up in these situations?</p> https://faq.i3wm.org/question/4301/i3-hanging/?comment=4308#comment-4308This happened to me sometimes with Steam windows. Sometimes, after closing a window, i3 hangs, but in my case I can still select another workspace with the mouse.Mon, 21 Jul 2014 19:06:10 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/4301/i3-hanging/?comment=4308#comment-4308