Hi, i have manjaro running on VirtualBox using i3. And it has been running fine for maybe over a year.
its running i3 so its using X11 i assume, and its in a VM so its using the VirtualBox VMSVGA driver with 3D acceleration enabled.
Today i wanted to increase the RAM and The CPUs allocated to it, so i did, and suddenly i have this really really strange bug.
Its like the entire i3 GUI is frozen, until i open a new window, then it will do a single draw call and update all windows. Then its all frozen again.
Im going to try to explain the steps:
- login to i3
- open a terminal (any) and nothing happens, no window nothing
- open a second terminal
- suddenly the first terminal appears on the left side of the screen, the second terminal opens on the right but is just a border, nothing is drawn in that window.
- open a third terminal, the second terminal is drawn and the 3rd terminal is just a border, nothing drawn in the actual window.
I can’t type in any window, or actually i can type, but what i have typed wont show up until i either open a new program, or exit a window.
If i do a soft reload of i3 it will redraw all the windows.
Iw i move the tiled windows around, it works fine. If i send a window to another warkspace, it will get sent, but the bottom bar will not get redrawn so it wont show there is a second workspace.
if i open dmenu and type something, no text appears but if i press enter, the window typed will show up.
Its sort of like it doesnt do any draw calls unless i manually do something, so that it needs to call for a draw call.
not when i type in any windows etc.
Has anyone seen anything like this before?