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Arpione

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From: Pécs, Hungary

Registered: 2010-09-13

Posts: 31

Dropdown terminals (guake, yakuake, tilda) all freeze randomly on XFCE

I tried tilda and yakuake earlier, I use guake now, but the problem is the same with all of them. I have guake|yakuake|tilda bound to F12 and sometimes after hiding it (whether with F12 or by clicking outside of it's window) it disappears and won't show again when pressing F12. After this happens there's an invisible rectangular area where the window used to be that captures all mouse clicks, thus blocking access to any underlying windows. It happened on 2 different machines, one with Arch and an AMD card, the other with Manjaro and Intel. I use XFCE on both machines so I think that's the culprit but that's as far as I got. I'd really appreciate your help.

Head_on_a_Stick

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Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: Dropdown terminals (guake, yakuake, tilda) all freeze randomly on XFCE

Try disabling the XFCE compositor (if you are using it) or any other compositing managers you are using.

If you start the terminals from another (non-dropdown) terminal, are there any error messages returned when it disappears?

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Arpione

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From: Pécs, Hungary

Registered: 2010-09-13

Posts: 31

Re: Dropdown terminals (guake, yakuake, tilda) all freeze randomly on XFCE

There are no errors shown when it happens. I did a little testing, I turned on the tray icon for guake and when it went into the invisible state the icon was still responsive and I could quit. I also tried compositing with compton instead of xfwm's compositor and the problem didn't occur yet, so it looks like xfwm's compositor is at fault.