On 4/2/23 05:33, Alexe Stefan wrote:
Other possible solutions are killing xfce through telnet/ssh or from another
tty. Another is using the sysrq key, but that is to be avoided.
dum., 2 apr. 2023, 08:28 <the...@sys-concept.com
<mailto:the...@sys-concept.com>> a scris:
At time to time my XFCE4 freezes. The screen is responding to the
keyboard, mouse pointer is moving on the screen but nothing is responding.
I just lookup some solutions and found this one:
- press: CTRL+Alt+T (to get to terminal)
- pidof xfce4-panel
- kill -9 pid
xfwm4 --replace &
Any other solutions?
I ask ChatGPT for a solution to this and I got:
1.) Try using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+Esc. This will turn your mouse
cursor into an X symbol, allowing you to click on the window that's causing the
freeze and kill it.
2.) If the keyboard shortcut doesn't work, try switching to a virtual terminal
by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2. Log in with your username and password.
3.) Once you're logged in, use the top or htop command to identify the process
that's causing the freeze. You can sort the list of processes by CPU usage or
memory usage to make it easier to find the offending process.
4.) Use the kill command followed by the process ID (PID) to terminate the
process. For example, if the PID is 1234, you would use the command kill 1234.
5.) Switch back to your X session by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F7. Your XFCE4 desktop
environment should now have restarted, and you can log in as usual.
"Ctrl+Alt+Esc" doesn't work, and I've never seen this solution; where does it
come from?
Thelma
