Fresh install keybinds stop responding [solved]

Gwynplaine · 2014-11-19 20:59:59

Hi there,

I've recently been having some issues with Arch. I did a fresh install because I'm running on a chromebook and need as much space as possible only have a 14GB SSD at present until I get round to upgrading it.

I previously installed Arch (i386) with no such issues, but I've recently switched to i3 WM and x86_64 using this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ch … tion_media. Last week I also installed a custom chrome patch
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ch … .27_Script and everything was working fine with this. I did a fresh installion of Arch about an hour ago and I'm mentioning this because it allowed me to install Arch 64bit directly from the dual ISO without having to modify the ISO itself so I'm not sure if that's the issue considering the 32bit installation worked from the same ISO.

Now I have some strange issues. Keybinds work fine when I boot up but when I open urxvt it seems to stop all my binds working. Similarly the same issue happens when I run dmenu and open chrome. Sometimes I can open multiple instances of the aforementioned before it stops working. The mouse icon changes as if it's trying to load something, but nothing opens and absolutely no binds work.

I've tried other WM's and get the same issues with urxvt and dmenu.

I have searched google but can't seem to find any related issues so I'm at a loss as to where to begin.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Last edited by Gwynplaine (2014-11-20 16:24:37)

jasonwryan · 2014-11-19 21:19:00

How do you set the keybinds? What's in your .Xresources? etc...

Gwynplaine · 2014-11-19 21:42:31

My keybinds are currently handled through the i3 config file that I have yet to modify.

I haven't created .Xresources yet.

My .xinitrc:
http://pastebin.com/hHFpHS6H

.xsession:
http://pastebin.com/7cBXQsBe

.bashrc
http://pastebin.com/M8PUywE9

.i3/config
http://pastebin.com/7rAFSQ28

As you can see, fresh install. Nothing at all has been modified because I did this install to see if this issue was persistent.

Thank you for the quick response.

Last edited by Gwynplaine (2014-11-19 21:44:23)

jasonwryan · 2014-11-19 22:02:25

Your .xinitrc is broken. Why are you trying to start urxvt and chromium backgrounded from there?

Gwynplaine · 2014-11-19 22:13:34

I basically just wanted them to autostart and thought it'd be easier to do it there. Hangup from using Chrunchbang and openbox I guess.

I removed them from .xinitrc, but I'm still having the same issue. It seems to be dmenu that's causing it.

jasonwryan · 2014-11-19 22:18:29

What makes you think it is dmenu? Have you setup a dmenurc?

Also, please don't use pastebin: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … in_clients

Gwynplaine · 2014-11-19 22:37:32

It seems that the use of dmenu causes things to hang. I'll reboot and wait a few minutes and see if it automatically does it.

I have not modified any files since installation except enabling wicd and slim with systemctl and the modifications to .xinitrc.

Thanks for the information. I'll bear that in mind.

Edit:

So I rebooted and left the system for five minutes. After that I ran dmenu using alt+d (as defined in i3 config). Dmenu would not open and changed the mousekey to the loading icon and no other bindings would work again.

So I believe that the issue is definitely with dmenu.

Edit 2:

So a little bit more information on dmenu. I have installed it with every installation. My system is 64bit and I have enabled multilib. I installed it through pacman.

I'm going to disable multilib and re-install.

Edit 3:

Same issue. Actually seems worse now.

Edit 4:

I'm wondering if it could be due to this section of .i3/config?

# start dmenu (a program launcher)
bindsym $mod+d exec dmenu_run
# There also is the (new) i3-dmenu-desktop which only displays applications
# shipping a .desktop file. It is a wrapper around dmenu, so you need that
# installed.
# bindsym $mod+d exec --no-startup-id i3-dmenu-desktop

Edit 5:

Okay so after some testing it seems to be i3. I've re-installed, using the i3-git package from AUR. I'm installing Yeganesh and I'll see now how this plays out.

Last edited by Gwynplaine (2014-11-20 01:57:48)

Gwynplaine · 2014-11-20 16:24:02

I've decided to use alternatives to i3 and dmenu so I'm just going to mark this as solved.

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Fresh install keybinds stop responding [solved]

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Re: Fresh install keybinds stop responding [solved]

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