[qutebrowser] a hang

Freya Bruhin me at the-compiler.org
Wed Jul 1 10:04:39 CEST 2026


Hey,

On 2026-07-01T06:24:14 , Greg Minshall via qutebrowser wrote:
> hi.  for the past several months i've been having an issue where all my
> qutebrowser instances stop reacting.  they don't redraw their windows
> (so whatever other window was in the foreground is left there), respond
> to, e.g., ":", etc.
> 
> i'm on an up-to-date Arch Linux.  my window manager is stumpwm but i
> haven't upgraded that in years.
> 
> any ideas?  now this is happening once or twice a week.  my only
> recourse is "kill -9 ...". :(

Most likely you're seeing this:
https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/8962

It also seems to affect Telegram Desktop, it looks like an issue in
either Qt or mesa.

Freya


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