From time to time, I've seen that the panel, while it appears, becomes
unresponsive (right- or left-click does nothing). When this happens, the desktop (right-click) also becomes non-responsive.
Normally, I've been able to recover from this by dropping to console and issuing "systemctl restart sddm", but this morning even that doesn't work.
Anybody else seen this? Know of a workaround or fix?
Well, when the focus stealing prevention was turned to maximum, I had this sort of issue with the Application Launcher (kickoff). I turned it down two notches and it seems to fine. Perhaps that could be a cause?
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Glenn Holmer shadowm@lyonlabs.org wrote:
From time to time, I've seen that the panel, while it appears, becomes unresponsive (right- or left-click does nothing). When this happens, the desktop (right-click) also becomes non-responsive.
Normally, I've been able to recover from this by dropping to console and issuing "systemctl restart sddm", but this morning even that doesn't work.
Anybody else seen this? Know of a workaround or fix?
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On 06/04/15 20:42, Glenn Holmer wrote:
From time to time, I've seen that the panel, while it appears, becomes unresponsive (right- or left-click does nothing). When this happens, the desktop (right-click) also becomes non-responsive.
Normally, I've been able to recover from this by dropping to console and issuing "systemctl restart sddm", but this morning even that doesn't work.
Anybody else seen this? Know of a workaround or fix?
Yes, but I don't know if what I'm seeing has the same cause. In my case it seems to be related to notifications and the desktop theme. Also, when it happens I simply have to wait several minutes and it clears. Haven't timed it.
I can make it happen nearly every time. I use a desktop theme with transparent components such as oxygen or "polished stones" and then just start firewall-config.
Glenn Holmer wrote:
From time to time, I've seen that the panel, while it appears, becomes unresponsive (right- or left-click does nothing). When this happens, the desktop (right-click) also becomes non-responsive.
Normally, I've been able to recover from this by dropping to console and issuing "systemctl restart sddm", but this morning even that doesn't work.
Anybody else seen this? Know of a workaround or fix?
It's a not uncommon problem of plasmashell process getting stuck and deadlocked (often due to some as-yet-unexplained interaction between libxcb and video drivers).
the easiest workaround is to restart the plasmashell process:
ALT-F2(krunner): killall plasmashell (wait a few moments) ALT-F2(krunner): plasmashell
On 06/04/2015 09:30 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
Glenn Holmer wrote:
From time to time, I've seen that the panel, while it appears, becomes unresponsive (right- or left-click does nothing). When this happens, the desktop (right-click) also becomes non-responsive.
Normally, I've been able to recover from this by dropping to console and issuing "systemctl restart sddm", but this morning even that doesn't work.
Anybody else seen this? Know of a workaround or fix?
It's a not uncommon problem of plasmashell process getting stuck and deadlocked (often due to some as-yet-unexplained interaction between libxcb and video drivers).
the easiest workaround is to restart the plasmashell process:
ALT-F2(krunner): killall plasmashell (wait a few moments) ALT-F2(krunner): plasmashell
I just had this problem again and restarting plasmashell didn't help. Neither did dropping to console and restarting sddm. I actually rebooted, which is unthinkable.
I have to tell you, MATE is looking better and better to me.
Glenn Holmer wrote:
On 06/04/2015 09:30 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
Glenn Holmer wrote:
From time to time, I've seen that the panel, while it appears, becomes unresponsive (right- or left-click does nothing). When this happens, the desktop (right-click) also becomes non-responsive.
Normally, I've been able to recover from this by dropping to console and issuing "systemctl restart sddm", but this morning even that doesn't work.
Anybody else seen this? Know of a workaround or fix?
It's a not uncommon problem of plasmashell process getting stuck and deadlocked (often due to some as-yet-unexplained interaction between libxcb and video drivers).
the easiest workaround is to restart the plasmashell process:
ALT-F2(krunner): killall plasmashell (wait a few moments) ALT-F2(krunner): plasmashell
I just had this problem again and restarting plasmashell didn't help. Neither did dropping to console and restarting sddm. I actually rebooted, which is unthinkable.
I have to tell you, MATE is looking better and better to me.
Sounds like you're having bigger issues, and I'd suspect video driver- related ones now... so maybe considering something that doesn't use compositing/opengl is indeed one option.
-- Rex
On 06/21/2015 11:41 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
Glenn Holmer wrote:
On 06/04/2015 09:30 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
Glenn Holmer wrote:
From time to time, I've seen that the panel, while it appears, becomes unresponsive (right- or left-click does nothing). When this happens, the desktop (right-click) also becomes non-responsive.
Normally, I've been able to recover from this by dropping to console and issuing "systemctl restart sddm", but this morning even that doesn't work.
Anybody else seen this? Know of a workaround or fix?
It's a not uncommon problem of plasmashell process getting stuck and deadlocked (often due to some as-yet-unexplained interaction between libxcb and video drivers).
the easiest workaround is to restart the plasmashell process:
ALT-F2(krunner): killall plasmashell (wait a few moments) ALT-F2(krunner): plasmashell
I just had this problem again and restarting plasmashell didn't help. Neither did dropping to console and restarting sddm. I actually rebooted, which is unthinkable.
I have to tell you, MATE is looking better and better to me.
Sounds like you're having bigger issues, and I'd suspect video driver- related ones now... so maybe considering something that doesn't use compositing/opengl is indeed one option.
Really? You think nouveau has problems that cause this?
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