keyboard hangs, window otherwise works

[grinapo]

Problem description

I have recently learned about create-window since I started using alacritty seriously and quickly hit the too many windows error. So there's an old process with about 20 windows open.

After a longer while keyboard in all of the windows of the said process stop responding. No keyboard input is processed.

The windows otherwise work: they do process mouse input, resize, and I can do a new create-window with any process not requiring keyboard input.

I do not see anything obviously wrong in strace, but granted: stracing multithread rust isn't very human eye friendly. I do no have a log file, I will try to generate one the next time, but I cannot foretell when will it get stuck again. I believe this is not strictly related to having multiple windows, I kind of remember this happening with single windows as well in the past, but I wasn't focusing on that back then.

Unfortunately this means that I have to kill all of the windows opened by this process, which is, to say, extremely inconvenient. Life of a tester. :-)

System

OS: Linux Debian/Sid,
Version: alacritty 0.13.0-dev (2df8f86)
Linux: X11/xfce4

[kchibisov]

If you re press all keyboard modifiers is it fixing itself (Super/Control/Alt, etc)?

[grinapo]

No, nothing.
I keep them open in case anyone want to try some magic on them. :-)

[L-Trump]

I'm experiencing the same issue which came up in the last couple of version updates. Occasionally, all windows in the same process fail to respond to keyboard input, but mouse clicks work fine (I tried this in neovim). I have to kill all windows of the same alacritty process to resume it.

[kchibisov]

The recent keyboard issue is likely due to libX11 breaking it, downgrading it to 1.8.7 should fix it.