awesome wm freeze

nephish99 · 2009-04-28 03:21:27

Hey all,

i am runniing awesome 3 .
It does really well,

the only bad thing is that it sometimes becomes totally unresponsive. I cannot use the
keyboard, and mouse clicks dont do anything. can still use the mouse, but not click.

Been looking at the logs and searching here, but cannot seem to find whats up.

When it happens, the only thing i can do is ctrl-alt-F2. then go to the view where i startx and restart the window manager.

thanks for any tips

Last edited by nephish99 (2009-04-28 04:00:12)

droog · 2009-04-28 05:46:11

maybe it's related to this?
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=70233

I've seen alot posts lately about awesome keyboard problems and xcb-utils.

nephish99 · 2009-04-28 06:09:53

thanks for the help, droog.
I think what i am experiencing is very similar.

still digging

sand_man · 2009-04-28 06:17:59

I notice this happens sometimes when I use moc... It's the only time I can reproduce it

Zeist · 2009-04-28 06:19:55

I've had some problems once when parts of the config has broken due to some value being nil, and this caused the key mappings to go broken.

Do you get any error output in the VC where you started awesome?

dunz0r · 2009-04-28 07:19:20

your config is broken. that's the problem. fix it!:)

nephish99 · 2009-04-29 17:27:00

Zeist wrote:

I've had some problems once when parts of the config has broken due to some value being nil, and this caused the key mappings to go broken.
Do you get any error output in the VC where you started awesome?

sorry, VC?
i am not seeing any errors when i get back to the terminal that i typed 'startx' in.

will try to find a config file bug.

thanks for the tips, gents

hBd · 2009-05-04 16:57:24

i have the same probleme, i use awesome-git, how could i know where is the probleme in my config ??

hBd · 2009-05-04 16:58:35

Zeist wrote:

I've had some problems once when parts of the config has broken due to some value being nil, and this caused the key mappings to go broken.
Do you get any error output in the VC where you started awesome?

no error in the VC

nephish99 · 2009-05-04 17:12:11

I finally fixed mine by downloading a new example rc.lua
have not had a crash since, but it has taken some tinkering to get what i want out of it.

i am not using awesome-git, just the one in the repos

hBd · 2009-05-04 18:12:22

then u say that i need to reconfigure rc.lua, and then it works fine ?
why changes so many time the awesome team the config file ?

hBd · 2009-05-05 06:25:40

i fixed my rc.lua file to, it seems to be working for now...hope that remains so

ent · 2009-05-05 08:22:35

hBd wrote:

then u say that i need to reconfigure rc.lua, and then it works fine ?
why changes so many time the awesome team the config file ?

It's better now than it was around the time they switched to lua, man that was a mess for a while.

dunz0r · 2009-05-05 11:41:03

awesome is single threaded afaik so if you make a syntaxly(is that even a proper word?) correct file that does functions that doesn't return anything/wait for some command to finish, awesome will appear to "freeze". It doesn't it just does what you told it to do like all UNIX-programs

nephish99 · 2009-06-03 20:56:45

Is there any kind of syntax test i can run on my rc.lua to ascertain its correct-ness?

Chuck Arch Linux · 2015-01-16 00:34:26

nephish99 wrote:

Is there any kind of syntax test i can run on my rc.lua to ascertain its correct-ness?

Yes...type in console :

awesome -k

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awesome wm freeze

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