![]() ![]() Yesterday on the Z420 it did it to me twice while I was going through a video in VLC and going to links in Firefox, which is what pushed me over the edge to register here and ask for help. a homebuilt desktop MSI P55-GD65 mobo, MSI Nvidia graphics card, running Ubuntu Studio.Īll of these have all OS patches installed. a HP Z420 (desktop) running Ubuntu Studio a Lenovo T61p (laptop) running MX Linux I'm running XFCE 4.14 an four separate computers (details below): Most times I can get a console with Ctrl-Alt-F3 (it may take a while) and from there 'sudo service lightdm restart' and it will get the GUI going again, but it logs me off and closes any applications I may have open, losing any changes I may have not saved. It doesn't happen often, but is annoying when it does - one time it happened when I was giving a presentation over Zoom, when I started showing a video with VLC. The question is not if it will lock up, but when. I'll be doing something benign like seeking a video in VLC, or following a link in Firefox, when it just locks up, can't move any windows, alt-tab does nothing, sometimes the cursor freezes. ![]() First of all, I like XFCE best of all the Linux GUIs, and really appreciate all the work that the developers put into it.
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