windowserver quit unexpectedly

It never happened to me before Ventura. In Ventura, it's happening all the time.

So far, I have found out it's connected to Full-Screen mode. I am coding in JetBrains IDE products and if I use them in full-screen by switching the screens it always dies. In some other discussions, some people mention other apps in full-screen mode.

I deleted the customized color profile of the monitor. It looked like it helped, but then it started again...

I have similar setups at my workplace and home office. Since upgrading to Ventura, I have been crashing repeatedly at work, but never at home. Initially, I thought it may be related to the fact that I have a 4K monitor at work and a QHD monitor at home (variants of the same Dell monitor). However, I believe now it is due to using the M2 MacBook Air in clamshell mode at home and open at work. I have started using the MacBook in clamshell mode at both locations and have yet to experience a crash.

That was my idea, but I somehow and stacked in the work and I can see that through Christmas time I could reinstall my set-up without any pressure or stress. Let us please know if it helped permanently 🙏

95% of my crashes was switchching the screens - usually - IntelliJ in fullscreen mode and switching to the normal window and the browser. I have probably just 2 crashes when I use the IntelliJ in the window.

Same here, but I continue to experiment. Have yet to have a crash when using the MacBook Air M2 on its own or connected to an external monitor in clamshell mode. In addition, I have not had a crash recently with the laptop open and connected to an external monitor with no app running in full screen. Also, deleted display preferences, which may have helped. In an effort to narrow the cause, now connecting to external monitor with laptop open with no app in full screen, but afterwards, putting select apps in full screen (e.g., Parallels). No crash yet.

For me, it seems to come most when changing accounts. No apps are running in full-screen mode. Often I get a blank screen, which requires a hard reboot. (And with Ventura I need to type in a password to change accounts; touch ID doesn't work, though it's set to do so in the settings.) I'm on a 2020 MacBook Pro.

I am experiencing this issue on a new MacBook Pro M1, with Ventura 13.01

I have a Dell external monitor and this occurs when I have the R Studio IDE open and I am using Command-tab to switch between applications.

For me it occurred when I switched users. I now combined my business and personal accounts into one user--with some difficulty--and I haven't had the problem since. But I haven't experimented with going into the other user account and switching back.

Just reset the monitor profile to its original ones both on your Mac and external monitor. Than I do not have any crashes. It's a solution I found on Reddit. I am also using an external 4K monitor, from LG, use it as my main desktop.

I did, and it helped a bit, crashes of the UI are not that often, but they are still happening... I have also found out that it depends on how long the OS is running from the start because after the restart to the first crash takes a longer time than between the crashes of UI only without restart...

I'm experiencing this issue on 13.0.1 as well.

For each WindowServer crash report, the diagnostic reports show a variation of the following:

Im also using Intellij, but the crash happens on multiple situations, not only while switching screens.

It happened to me probably 25 times in the full-screen mode and just once in normal mode since I upgraded to Ventura. It never happened to me on the previous version of macOS...

Unfortunately, the issue is not fixed in Ventura 13.0.1 ... i had 2 crashes today, after the update

Here too, crashing often since Ventura update

Yeah, just after another crash after 13.0.1, connected with a 4K display and crashed when coding using vscode on the internal screen.