
Hello All, I have recurring problem (not often) which started just recently. Thus far it appears random. The problem is that all my open windows freeze, can't be moved and do not respond to any input. I can open a terminal window (from icon) but cannot get input focus in this window I run gkrellm and that shows that the system is chugging along OK. If I use alt-F2 I can enter 'startx' and then all windows respond as they should. I am running an up to date Fedora 21 x86_64, and using Cinnamon. What might be the likely causes of this behaviour? Cheers, -- Regards, Terry Duell

On 16/02/15 11:02, Terry Duell wrote:
The problem is that all my open windows freeze, can't be moved and do not respond to any input. I can open a terminal window (from icon) but cannot get input focus in this window
Sounds to me like the window manager is crashing and not respawning.

Hello Jeremy, On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 11:47:48 +1100, Jeremy Visser <jeremy@sunriseroad.net> wrote:
On 16/02/15 11:02, Terry Duell wrote:
The problem is that all my open windows freeze, can't be moved and do not respond to any input. I can open a terminal window (from icon) but cannot get input focus in this window
Sounds to me like the window manager is crashing and not respawning.
I guess that would be Cinnamon. I'm running cinnamon-2.4.6-2.fc21.x86_64. I'll see if there are any bug reports. Cheers, -- Regards, Terry Duell

On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 14:52:52 +1100, Terry Duell <tduell@iinet.net.au> wrote:
Hello Jeremy,
On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 11:47:48 +1100, Jeremy Visser <jeremy@sunriseroad.net> wrote:
On 16/02/15 11:02, Terry Duell wrote:
The problem is that all my open windows freeze, can't be moved and do not respond to any input. I can open a terminal window (from icon) but cannot get input focus in this window
Sounds to me like the window manager is crashing and not respawning.
I guess that would be Cinnamon. I'm running cinnamon-2.4.6-2.fc21.x86_64. I'll see if there are any bug reports.
It seems it might be muffin that's managing windows on cinnamon. An update to muffin just arrived, so hopefully that will improve things. Cheers, -- Regards, Terry Duell
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