[xmonad] Stuck inside a window - this happen to anyone else?

[Brent Yorgey]

On Dec 14, 2007 11:23 AM, Dougal Stanton <ithika at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is just a complete shot-in-the-dark bug report, to see if anyone
> else has experienced similar symptoms. I don't imply that the
> following problem has anything to do with xmonad, though it would seem
> the prime suspect.
>
> Earlier today I was working in Firefox with a bunch of other windows
> open on screen, a bunch of other workspaces populated too. FF was
> working fine, but everything I tried to do *outside* of the browser
> didn't work. I couldn't mouse over other windows to give them focus. I
> couldn't switch to other workspaces. I couldn't move the focussed
> window around with mod-shift-j/k or choose a new master.
>
> I couldn't mod-q to restart, though I managed to switch to another
> virtual terminal and back (ctrl-alt-Fn) so the keyboard seems to have
> been responsive. If I'd been thinking at the time I would have tried
> to open another window from within Firefox to see what it would do. In
> the end I killed xmonad from the other VT and it all worked out fine.
>
> Has this ever happened to you? And secondarily, is there a way to
> mod-q Xmonad through a kill sig? Does it recognise SIGHUP?
>
> Cheers,
>
> D.
>

That sounds like something I've experienced.  Firefox still responded to the
keyboard and mouse, right?  Next time it happens, try opening another window
from within firefox -- when I've experienced this sort of thing, opening
another window has fixed the problem.  Very strange, at any rate...

-Brent
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