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ZephyrDo

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Registered: 2019-01-12

Posts: 1

[SOLVED] i3 window focus isn't working properly

Shame edit: I think this was happening because I had my keyboard resting on my wacom tablet. It was never an issue in Windows since I had touch and the button disabled. Once I unplugged it everything started working again. I could be wrong, I almost hope I'm wrong, but I think that fixed it.

Hi, I did a fresh install of Arch 2 days ago and after getting X and i3 setup I was having issues navigating between windows. If the mouse interacts with a window in any way besides hovering over it (click or scroll wheel) then the focus will lock to that window. I'll no longer able to use my mouse to give other windows focus. I can sometimes get it to change by pressing $mod+shift+R while hovering another window or by navigating to them using $mod+arrow keys but neither is consistent. I hate to say the issue is intermittent but it only happens 90% of the time. Sometimes, rarely, it works fine.

Here's my setup since installing Arch:

pacman -S xorg-server xorg-xinit i3-gaps dmenu ntfs-3g
pacman -S pulseaudio pavucontrol pamixer
pacman -S nvidia nvidia-settings
pacman -S feh xcompmgr transset-df
pacman -S xterm vim firefox

linux 4.20.arch1-1 (base)
i3 version 4.16 (2018-11-04)
nvidia 425.15-5

I start i3 with startx. This is my .xinitrc

# Set background
sh /home/user/.fehbg &
# Set xterm colors
[[ -f ~/.Xresources ]] && xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
# For transset-df
xcompmgr -c &
# Start i3
exec i3

Below is my config file from ~/.config/i3/config. Everything custom is in the first 22 lines and the rest is standard.

https://pastebin.com/hXFALgCq

$mod+Return executes the script .i3-terminal

xterm &
sleep 0.2
transset-df -a 0.85 > /dev/null

I'm not sure which logs would help but here's my xorg log

https://pastebin.com/qnKsg5Mb

This is day three of trying to figure this out and after not receiving a response on /r/i3wm I figured I'd try here. These are some of the things I've tried:

• Removed i3-gaps and installed i3-wm

• Used default config files for everything

• Reinstalled Arch several times

• Set "focus_follows_mouse" to yes and no in i3 conf

• Everything else I could think of

I have no clue what's causing this. When I did the fresh installs of Arch I had it happen with as little as x, i3, xterm, firefox and nvidia installed. Any suggestions?

Last edited by ZephyrDo (2019-01-12 21:50:54)

hcjl

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From: berlin

Registered: 2007-06-29

Posts: 330

Re: [SOLVED] i3 window focus isn't working properly

I prefer starting only i3 from .xinitrc and the rest like feh, xcomp (in my case compton) from i3 config. But if it now works for you this is fine for me as well ;-)