I've been running gnome3 on wheezy for about a month now. I've noticed that gnome3 will periodically (several times an hour) seem to stop responding but doesn't completely freeze. When this happens I can move the mouse and keyboard works in already open windows but mouse clicks do not register in any application nor can I even click builtin parts of the shell like the clock or pull up the activities bar. Somehow after alt+tabbing and clicking around it will eventually come back to normal but I am unable to find a specific pattern I am doing that restores things to normal. I think most likely after some time thing happens behind the scenes that brings it back to life.
I tried several simple things just to rule them out: - made sure my wheezy was update to (im current as of the time of this email) - upgraded kernel to 3.8.10 (built from source, works fine but no change in behavoir) - switched back from nvidia's binary gfx driver back to nouveau - tried plugging in several external mice instead of using my builtin touchpad Googling the issue can be frustrating because it comes up with lots of vague results but the one query that seems to be relevant was "gnome 3 mouse click". This comes back with quite a few forums for various distros which include gnome3 and many people seem to be describing similar behavoir to what I am seeing. After going through all the things listed above, as of a few hours ago just for giggles I installed KDE (not thrilled about it though) and have not seen the issue at all. This makes me think it is unlikely a hardware issue nor any kernel issue, and simply a gnome only issue. The part that puzzles me is that I've been a member of debian-user for several years and havent really seen any signifcant noise on the list thats resembles my issue. I am running a dell m4500 with i7 @ 2.8ghz, 16gb ram, nvidia quadro fx 1800M current kernel is 3.8.10 (from source), prior kernel from wheezy was 3.2.0.4-amd64 Anyone seen anything like this? Any ideas how to troubleshoot further? It's a shame because I was actually really liking gnome3 but this is a major annoyance that hinders productivity. Thanks in advance chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAKnNFz9WcjkiM-W9z59L1xQZ+O5sJ6RyU8PeuqVYdsFy7=a...@mail.gmail.com