Comment 3 for bug 1723758

To see if this has been fixed in newer versions I am now running after having installed:

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau-hwe-16.04 xserver-xorg-core-hwe-16.04 xserver-xorg-hwe-16.04 linux-generic-hwe-16.04 xserver-xorg-input-libinput-hwe-16.04

Try this only at your own risk.

Next I will test especially with google-earth and LibreOffice as they are involved in a lot of lock-ups.