evilwm may sometimes lose focus after closing a window. This means that evilwm stops responding to keyboard shortcuts, and if no other window is open which the mouse can be moved over to regain focus evilwm becomes unusable and has to be restarted. Patch derived from discussion at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Evilwm#Lost_focus_bug_fix --- evilwm-1.1.1/client.c +++ evilwm-1.1.1/client.c @@ -172,6 +172,7 @@ * _NET_WM_STATE) */ if (c->remove) { LOG_DEBUG("setting WithdrawnState\n"); + XSetInputFocus(dpy, PointerRoot, RevertToPointerRoot, CurrentTime); set_wm_state(c, WithdrawnState); ewmh_withdraw_client(c); } else {