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by Rezo 3494 days ago
Sometimes when I use XQuartz and Inkscape or some other X11 app on Mac, it will freeze such that you can't switch apps or use the Apple menu. Option-Command-Esc used to work...

In the video linked above the Apple menu also didn't appear to work, despite the mouse cursor moving, which matches my experiences.

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Sometimes when I use XQuartz and Inkscape or some other X11 app on Mac, it will freeze such that you can't switch apps or use the Apple menu. Option-Command-Esc used to work...

Exactly - what not everyone realizes is that the top menu is rendered and events from it are dispatched into the process of the current (active) application. If that thing refuses to return from an event handler dispatched from the main thread's run loop, (i.e. most cases where program has hung), you can't use the Apple menu.