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gnome-shell package

  1. Bug #869408
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 869408

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Jean-Christophe Baptiste (jc-baptiste) wrote : Re: gnome-shell hangs when switching to a running VMWare Player Window in Activities menu

I can confirm this bug too, which happens very often only when I use VMWare Workstation (and a Windows guest with vmware-tools, as far as I can tell).

I now use the Nouveau driver.

Most of time, I switch to a TTY and reload gnome-shell with :
$ killall -1 gnome-shell

But sometimes, it is either too unstable or gnome-shell crashes.
I restart it :
$ gnome-shell -d :0

Note that when I use the Nvidia proprietary driver, the TTY also hangs and in such a case I have no other choice than unproperly reboot the computer.