Hi. I recently encounter these random freezes on the Fedora i3 flavor. I tested on 2 different computers with different graphical hardware (Intel and AMD) and different configs (fresh install and my own config). I got the random freeze on all of them. It is very hard to replicate these freezes and journalctl does not show any error. Even with the fresh install version, I still get these freezes.

The freezes are something like:

  • Cannot use Mod+key to launch anything. This includes Mod+D for Dmenu or Rofi, I test with both. Further, you also cannot launch things like terminal: Mod + Enter.

  • Mod+ number still works. So you can switch workspace but cannoy launch anythint

  • Mod + key for mode works. So in my case, I bind Mod+0 to show a mode bar with selections to shutdown, reboot or logout. Pretty similar to how Manjaro i3 handled it. When the freezes occur, this is the only way for me to logout.

  • Force reboot or just logout and log back in solves the problem.

Anyone on i3 Fedora has these issues? I am 100% sure it is Fedora specific because I test the same setup on Debian and Arch and never get these freezes.

  • mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.worldOP
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    17 hours ago

    Yeh I started with Fedora 41 on i3 and then did the upgrade to 42. Maybe there are issues during the upgrades? Idk

    I just wiped my drive and reinstalled 42 because the issue is so annoying - you cant do shit unless you logout and log back in.

    I tried Fedora KDE 42 - very nice but it hang on bootup (30 seconds after login) and randomly on suspend.

    Guess I’ll just stick with the official Gnome - Fedora Workstation.