Re: UI Freezes in gnome shell, usually when playing video ?

2014-03-17 Thread Joakim Soderlund
Gnome Shell 3.6 on Ubuntu 12.10 with tons of extensions, rock solid. On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 3:37 AM, marathon.duran...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 02:55:06AM -0800, Stuart Axon wrote: At least once a day if I play a video, on a web page or a video player everything freezes in

Re: UI Freezes in gnome shell, usually when playing video ?

2014-03-16 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sun, 2014-03-16 at 10:43 -0700, Stuart Axon wrote: I'm not convinced this is purely an ubuntu thing, I'd be willling to try a different one if there is a live cd with gnome shell I will test it on that too. I'll try upgrading to 14.04 and see what happens too [Please ignore this slight

Re: UI Freezes in gnome shell, usually when playing video ?

2014-03-16 Thread Bazon Bloch
No such problems on arch. One of the reasons I moved away from ubuntu was the bad Gnome-Shell integration (only using heavy patched Gnome-Software), I can imagine is it still as bad. 2014-03-16 20:53 GMT+01:00 Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org: On Sun, 2014-03-16 at 10:43 -0700,

Re: UI Freezes in gnome shell, usually when playing video ?

2014-03-16 Thread Stuart Axon
The error dialogs DO bother me ... I have no idea what they meant ... and the same ones happen on an install of ubuntu on a VM that is only  a couple months old, as the laptop. I love gnome, on the other hand I have a funny urge to make a timeline of all the features that were added and

Re: UI Freezes in gnome shell, usually when playing video ?

2014-03-16 Thread Stuart Axon
Silly question: is gnome-terminal transparency removed in distros that are not Ubuntu ? It's really useful when you quickly put the terminal on top of the browser and type stuff based on whats underneath.   S++ On , Stuart Axon stua...@yahoo.com wrote: The error dialogs DO bother me ...

Re: UI Freezes in gnome shell, usually when playing video ?

2014-03-16 Thread Alex Jordan
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Stuart Axon stua...@yahoo.com wrote: Silly question: is gnome-terminal transparency removed in distros that are not Ubuntu ? It's really useful when you quickly put the terminal on top of the browser and type stuff based on whats underneath. S++ Yes. That

Re: UI Freezes in gnome shell, usually when playing video ?

2014-03-16 Thread Yaa101
You can use Xfce4-terminal for that, if your distro allows it to install. I run a mixture of programs designed for different desktops on Gnome-Shell, things from gnome, mate, xfce, kde, etc... -- (o_ //\ Regards, Groeten, V_/_ Bas Burger. On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 13:40:45 -0700 (PDT) Stuart Axon

Re: UI Freezes in gnome shell, usually when playing video ?

2014-03-16 Thread Yaa101
Hi Stuart, Your computer problems remind me of my own from years ago, I had such stablity problems with large stuff like movies, compiling stuff and other longer term applications. In the end it came down to having a bad memory stick, it was not bad enough to get obvious noticed during normal

Re: UI Freezes in gnome shell, usually when playing video ?

2014-03-16 Thread marathon . durandal
On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 02:55:06AM -0800, Stuart Axon wrote: At least once a day if I play a video, on a web page or a video player everything freezes in gnome shell, after the video has played for a few seconds. The sound carries on, if I switch to another terminal and pkill -HUP

Re: UI Freezes in gnome shell, usually when playing video ?

2014-03-15 Thread Tim
Hi Stuart, It would be great if you can check if this happens with the current 14.04 Trusty builds. Also we have our own list that is probably more suited for Ubuntu GNOME support questions https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-gnome Tim On 15/03/14 21:34, Stuart Axon wrote: