Window does not disappear when closing app
Hi, When I close Chrome using $mod+Shift+q, the app remains at the screen but it doesn't disappear until I move to another desktop. Is that a normal behaviour? Thanks
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As setting a background seems to solve the problem, you can just put
exec --no-startup-id xsetroot -grayinto your ~/.i3/config and it will be run when i3 starts up.
Of course you can use any other command that sets a background color, pattern or image instead of xsetroot -gray.
The issue here was, that there was no content set for the root window (what is sometimes called desktop). Therefore when the last window on a workspace gets closed, i3 has nothing to draw for the root window (which then becomes visible) and an image of the last window remains. And it is just an image, the application itself terminated successfully and the actual window was closed.
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Asked: Apr 22 '15
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No, it's not. Does this happen with any other application?
It sounds as if the root window ("background") is not redrawn. Do you set a background color or image? And does the problem persist if you run `xsetroot -gray`?
It happens with all the applications too. And I haven't change the background color or image, is the behaviour I encountered when i3 was installed, without tweaking it.
could this be a graphics driver issue?
My graphic card is an Intel card (typical for laptops), do I need a special thing to do?