#Dev Tools Frozen and Blank on Manjaro Linux

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karmic nebula
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Hi there, tried searching and didn't find any answers. I'll keep it brief - I'm having no trouble actually running Tauri for developing an app, but I am having trouble with the dev tools. I right-clicked and chose "Inspect Element" a while back, and upon doing so I was greeted with the dev tools, working great!

As I clicked through the tabs, I clicked one (I don't remember which, but it was performance-related and at the end of the tab list)... and then the dev tools froze. The app itself continued working, but the dev tools became completely unresponsive. I gave it 10 minutes, grabbed a coffee, and came back ... still frozen. So I killed the app, and now any time I try to open the dev tools window, it is blank.

It appears to think there are still controls somehow, as my mouse cursor changes in various places while I move around within the dev tools itself.

Lastly, about 10 seconds after closing the app window, I get a warning in my shell of "WebProcess didn't exit as expected after the UI process connection was closed."

The above remains true across any Tauri project (even created a fresh one, just to verify). I've attached a screenshot to show what I mean.

I'm assuming it's still stuck on whatever tab it froze on, but any ideas for what/how/where to clear whatever state the webview is relying on for that so I can get it rendering again?

fervent dagger
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you could try deleting the ~/.cache/webkitgtk-4.0/WebInspector/ folder (while all webkitgtk instances are closed). afaik that's the only devtools specific cache not bound to a single project. That said in the same .cache/ folder there should be a folder with your app name, which you can delete too while you're at it