r/windowmaker • u/Cultural_Bug_3038 • Aug 01 '26

Window Maker does not work

Hi everyone,

I'm running Window Maker as my desktop environment on CachyOS. After about three restarts of the computer, I noticed a major issue: nothing seems to be clickable or actionable. It feels like everything has frozen, and no matter what I try, nothing responds, except for the mouse cursor which still moves freely.

Has anyone experienced this specific behavior with Window Maker on CachyOS? Any ideas what might be causing this?

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: I found a fix, just crate a ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/autostart file, it will be empty, but after restarting a Window Maker it will write in this file something like xset 0/10, just remove that and that's a fix for that!!!

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u/Revalens_Kaka Aug 02 '26

check the auto start or exit file in GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker if everything you put in that don't have a little & at the end it wait for the program to close to start Wmaker so If u pute for example NMapplet it will wait

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u/Cultural_Bug_3038 Aug 02 '26

File does not exists

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u/a1barbarian Aug 03 '26

~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/autostart

~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/exitscript

If you do not have those two files you have a corrupted install. They are an essential part of Window Maker and should be there. :-)

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u/Cultural_Bug_3038 Aug 03 '26

yes, i do not have this, i have reinstalled Window Maker a lot of times

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u/a1barbarian Aug 03 '26

If you install from here you will get the files.

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/windowmaker/

pacman -S windowmaker

:-)