Editor and Terminal often stop working when switching among Pycharm projects

Question

In the latest two versions of PyCharm I have noticed that sometimes when switching to a project it is not possible to type in any new content - either in editor panels or in the Terminal sessions. Other open projects may be switched to and are working. But even after switching to and from that suspect project it still is non-responsive.

The Terminal Cursor shows it is not focused (even when attempting to switch to it) and the editor does not show the edit cursor even when the editor panel has the focus:

I thought maybe it's indexing or something like that, but that behavior just happened and in this case nothing has been done in the project for hours.

After a few minutes and jumping around in Pycharm as well as other applications and then returning to the project it now has a normal edit cursor in both the editor panel and [when switching to it] the Terminal panel.

Some things I have tried (and do not help):

• restarting PyCharm
• invalidating caches
• deleting PyCharm project / recreating it
• increasing memory available
• installing new version of Pycharm

Has anyone else experienced this and found a fix or workaround? I am on PyCharm Pro 2022.3.1 on macOS Ventura 13.1.

Update I have restarted Pycharm and this non-responsiveness is happening across all projects presently.

Answer 1

This problem has changed from occasionally to always afaict. The only fix - inconvenient as it is - seems to be to switch to another application in between switching among Pycharm windows.

Update Actually that switching does not work either. This is an unresolved issue

Another update This behavior is consistent across multiple recent versions of pycharm. The project switcher is broken. A workaround is to view all projects via the Window top level menu. That's slower but works.