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

[Guillaume ALAUX]

On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 5:38 PM, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
> 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.

Comparing your pacman.log with mine (mine taken from 2016-08-23 to
2016-09-05), here is the list of common packages we both have either
installed or upgraded:

- man-db
- mariadb
- mariadb-clients
- mediainfo
- nano
- networkmanager
- openvpn
- pacman-mirrorlist
- python2-appdirs
- python2-setuptools
- python-appdirs
- python-setuptools
- webkit2gtk
- xdotool

Guillaume