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:
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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.
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Mod+ number still works. So you can switch workspace but cannoy launch anythint
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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.
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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.
This started happening to my wife and me in 2 separate AMD computers about 3 months ago on Fedora 41,for no apparent reason.
I ended up switching to PopOS and my wife went back to Windows (she was dual booting).
We both came back to Fedora as soon as 42 was live, and have had no issues (yet).
We both use Fedora Workstation on Mutter, not i3, so could have been a different situation.