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. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/869408 Title: gnome-shell hangs when switching to a running VMWare Player Window in Activities menu To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-shell/+bug/869408/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
