xmonad: losing keyboard after some time on 6.3 and -current.

[Karel Gardas]

Hi,

I'm looking for other xmonad users experience on OpenBSD. What I see
here is that xmonad somehow loses keyboard "connection" after some
time. I can't no longer switch between windows, workspaces, screens. I
can't no longer invoke new xterm, invoke dmenu etc. Basically it looks
like crashed, but I can still see the process running (e.g. both xmonad
and my option compiled xmonad-x86_64-openbsd are shown in ps output).
"After some time" usually means around half an hour or so. I've tested
xmonad on OpenBSD 6.3 and -current as of May 7. By xmonad I mean all
xmonad related packages provided by OpenBSD. I've also tested xmonad
head obtained from xmonad and xmonad-contrip github.com repos installed
by cabal. The experience is still the same. With xmonad I'm also using
xmobar so I provide both xmobar and xmonad config files below. When I
compiled xmonad or recompiled configuration I've used OpenBSD's
provided ghc package.

My question is: do you also see this behaviour? If so, what is your
workaround for this -- if any? If not, what's your platform/X11 details?

I'm running this on ThinkPad T500, builtin Intel graphics and OpenBSD's
provided X11 (I've not compiled myself nor apply any patches to that).
I also do have HP 27" monitor connected to laptop using display port
connection/cable. But please note the behavior of xmonad is same also
w/o connected external monitor.

Thanks!
Karel

My xmonad configure file:

import XMonad
import System.IO
import XMonad.Util.Run (spawnPipe)
import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog
import XMonad.Hooks.ManageDocks

main = do
  xmproc <- spawnPipe "/usr/local/bin/xmobar /home/karel/.xmobarrc"
  xmonad $ defaultConfig {
    manageHook = manageDocks <+> manageHook defaultConfig
    , layoutHook = avoidStruts $ layoutHook defaultConfig
    , handleEventHook = handleEventHook defaultConfig <+> docksEventHook
    , logHook = dynamicLogWithPP xmobarPP
                { ppOutput = hPutStrLn xmproc
                , ppTitle = xmobarColor "green" "" . shorten 50
                , ppHiddenNoWindows = xmobarColor "grey" ""
                }
    , borderWidth = 5 
    , normalBorderColor = "#cccccc"
    , focusedBorderColor = "#008b00"
    }

My xmobar configure file:

Config { font = "-*-Fixed-Bold-R-Normal-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
        , borderColor = "black"
        , border = TopB
        , bgColor = "black"
        , fgColor = "grey"
        , position = TopW L 100
        , sepChar = "%"
        , alignSep = "}{"
        , lowerOnStart = False
--        , commands = [ Run Date "%a %b %_d %Y <fc=#ee9a00> %H:%M:%S</fc>" 
"Mydate" 10
        , template = "}{ <fc=#008b00>%date%</fc>"
        }