(xfce4-) Terminal freezes randomly

pauligrinder · 2010-12-28 19:55:32

Hey,

I've been using the XFCE-terminal for a couple of years without any issues, but lately it has started to freeze at random every once in a while. At first, I thought it was a problem with my internet connection (I was configuring my home server using ssh), but today it froze just before I hit enter for an "ls" in my home directory, locally. Scrolling works, I can select and copy text from it, but my keyboard input isn't going into the terminal. I haven't noticed this kind of behaviour in Guake or the VC's (I don't use either of those much though), so I'm pretty sure it's related to the actual Terminal. I also tried Sakura and Roxterm, neither of which seemed to have this problem. This is a very annoying problem, as I use the terminal all the time these days. Has anyone else had issues like this? Is migrating to another terminal emulator the only option to solve this?

"pacman -Q terminal" output:
terminal 0.4.5-1

I don't know what other information to provide, sorry. (don't know if kernel versions etc. are relevant in this case?)

Last edited by pauligrinder (2010-12-28 20:04:26)

otti · 2010-12-29 00:16:23

I have (I think) the same problem, but with xterm. And it randomly - but pretty rare - occurs under enlightenment (e17) and xfce as well. If you alt-tab to another window the keyboard input from before gets displayed in the terminal.
I got the same behaviour in firefox within a flash website: if i try to scroll the website is only updated when I switched to another window...
This seems to me like an xorg (focus) bug or something like that. Unfortunately I don't have a solution for the problem.

pauligrinder · 2011-02-01 22:01:12

Hmmm, yeah So the input that didn't go anywhere shows up when you alt+tab? I didn't try that, so I don't know... I did try to switch windows by clicking, which didn't do anything to the terminal, though.
I haven't used Arch much since November, when I bought my iMac (not counting ssh to my server, which I use almost as much as the graphical part of Mac OS X, lol ), but I haven't noticed this stuff happening again since I switched to Sakura (which seems good, but lacks two things I want: ability to change cursor color and being able to set the title to Terminal and make it never change. Very important things, I know! ). Oh, and another detail: I've only encountered this problem on my laptop, never on my desktop, my parents' desktop, etc. so it might have something to do with the particular version I had installed at that time? I haven't tried to reproduce the problem since, so I don't know if this was temporary or not...

Another problem I have with EVERY terminal on Arch, including the vc's (ctrl+alt+f2 etc) and my ssh-remote terminal, is that fairly often when the command I'm typing takes more than one line, my typing comes on top of the previous output which is annoying. Anyone have a solution for that? I don't recall this happening on Ubuntu/Xubuntu, but then again, I didn't use the terminal this much back then.

Last edited by pauligrinder (2011-02-01 22:40:33)

pauligrinder · 2011-02-06 12:48:16

Ok, seems like I managed to reproduce this. This time it happened with Sakura: I had an ssh connection open to my server, screen open with irssi in it. Then I logged into it from another computer, remote detaching the screen. When I got back to this machine, the terminal was complete frozen, saying screen remote detached and showing the normal input line (pauli@aphasis: |). First I figured the connection had been dropped, but ctrl+C did nothing, so I figured it was this bug again. Then I alt+tabbed around a bit and changed size of the window, and now terminal is completely blank, not taking any input... It is "awake" though, because when I click the x in the corner, the "Some processes are running, are you sure you want to close Sakura"-prompt comes up. Very strange.

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#1 2010-12-28 19:55:32

(xfce4-) Terminal freezes randomly

#2 2010-12-29 00:16:23

Re: (xfce4-) Terminal freezes randomly

#3 2011-02-01 22:01:12

Re: (xfce4-) Terminal freezes randomly

#4 2011-02-06 12:48:16

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