Comment 17 for bug 1724439

not that we should let this (bug report) thread descend into KDE
advocacy but I did actually try that, last time around. I'm afraid I
couldn't get the hang of it, and then plasma went all weird on me, like
the plasma background not filling the screen kind of weird. But I did
try it. :-) Used to use KDE back in the day.

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Rachel

On 15/03/18 13:39, dwilches wrote:
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> Rachel, no need to switch to Mac to avoid this problem. What I ended up
> doing was this:
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> $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
> $ sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
> $ sudo apt install kubuntu-desktop
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> Daniel Wilches
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> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 4:21 AM, Rachel Greenham <<email address hidden>
>> wrote:
>> Well, my bug #1756036 just got (automatically-i-think) marked as a
>> duplicate of this one, and I'm on 18.04 (gnome-shell 3.27.92-0ubuntu1)
>> So that's one, Daniel. ;-) I'd been getting this on some mornings, but
>> the bug report was getting rejected because of outdated packages until
>> this morning. Interestingly it doesn't seem to happen again later in the
>> day, so, as noted before, length-of-sleep may be a factor.
>>
>> I reported a lot on these bugs in 17.10, until I eventually gave up and
>> just used my (half-the-speed) mac for a while. Freshly-installed 18.04
>> and tried again, and I *am* having far less trouble. When it does go
>> wrong, it "fails better", in that it seems to recover reasonably well
>> and leave me with a working session, even if there are a couple of side-
>> effects (eg: having both dash-to-dock and the dash in
>> activities/applications) which clear on an orderly logout/login.
>>
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>> Title:
>> gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in meta_window_get_monitor() from
>> ffi_call_unix64() from ffi_call() from gjs_invoke_c_function() from
>> function_call()
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