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Hi all,
Something has been recently happening to me, I have no idea why. I use XFCE regularly. Recently, though, the interface freezes if I happen to leave my desktop running, and ScreenSaver has the screen shut off, for some long time, say more than an hour or so. I then have to switch to a tty, Ctl+Alt-F2 for example, and reboot the machine.

I know, it's just an inconvenience, but I'd rather find why it's happening, and how I can make it stop.

I'd be grateful if you would be kind to give me any suggestions.

Hosam Adeeb Nashed

hosadeeb wrote:I then have to switch to a tty, Ctl+Alt-F2 for example, and reboot the machine.

Does it also work to simply restart the display manager instead? E.g. if you use sddm, as root

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systemctl restart sddm


Would also be helpful instead of the reboot, get journal logs via

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journalctl -ab > /tmp/journal.log

and then later attach /tmp/journal.log here.

Will check and tell you what happens! A million thanks!

I think doktor5000 made a typo, should be sddm instead of ssdm.

Oh yeah that's right, thanks for the hint, changed it

No problem at all. I use lightdm anyway