How To Recover from a Desktop Freeze?

Eraph · 2016-03-05 05:13:24

This has happened a couple of times now, but I can still move the mouse and use Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to a terminal and work from there so at least I know the whole computer's not frozen. If the desktop freezes like this, where I can no longer interact with windows, Tint2, open the menu with right-click or Super+Space, is there a way I can recover it without a reboot? I've tried killing off OpenBox from htop and starting it again in a terminal session but I get the error:

Openbox-Message wrote:

Failed to open the display from the DISPLAY environment variable.

Cheers!

damo · 2016-03-05 08:07:16

In TTY1, you can restart the desktop session with

sudo systemctl restart lightdm.service

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-03-05 10:41:46

Eraph wrote:

the desktop freezes like this, where I can no longer interact with windows, Tint2, open the menu with right-click or Super+Space

Next time that happens, drop to a TTY & `pkill compton`

Eraph · 2016-03-05 10:58:30

damo wrote:

In TTY1, you can restart the desktop session with
sudo systemctl restart lightdm.service

I did eventually find this one, but it kills all running apps too - something I was hoping to avoid. No biggie on this occasion.

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Next time that happens, drop to a TTY & `pkill compton`

I'll give it a go, cheers!

#1 2016-03-05 05:13:24

How To Recover from a Desktop Freeze?

#2 2016-03-05 08:07:16

Re: How To Recover from a Desktop Freeze?

#3 2016-03-05 10:41:46

Re: How To Recover from a Desktop Freeze?

#4 2016-03-05 10:58:30

Re: How To Recover from a Desktop Freeze?

Board footer