[arch-general] i3wm (randomly?) freezes; SIGCONT seems to fix it

Ralf Mardorf silver.bullet at zoho.com
Fri Sep 9 15:38:47 UTC 2016


On Fri, 9 Sep 2016 17:32:40 +0200, Bennett Piater wrote:
>> Regarding
>> 
>> https://www.google.de/?gws_rd=ssl#q=+linux+no+.xsession-errors
>> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=143068
>> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/where-is-~-xsession-errors-log-867498/
>> 
>> $ startx 2> ~/.xsession-errors
>> 
>> should do the job.  
>
>Thank you, I will change that in my .profile and see if that contains
>useful information.
>
>However, if sending SIGCONT to i3 works the next time this happens, I
>don't think that X has anything to do with it...

.xsession-errors contains the output of every GUI app you are running,
as if you would launch all those apps in terminals.


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