I wrote: > I'll be the first to admit that I don't use Fedora in a conventional > way. But it suits me -- or it did until things started misbehaving a few > weeks ago. Now I'm finally disgusted enough to write some notes and hope > for good advice. > > I run F23 with the KDE desktop in what used to be called runlevel 3. I > delete rhgb and quiet from /etc/default/grub and start X using startx > because I like to see what happens during boot. I hate systems that try > to hide what is really happening. Once KDE is running, I use eight > desktops with several windows on each one, most of them XTerms with > active SSH sessions to other machines. When I leave my desk, I lock the > screen (using the default KDE locker as configured with System Settings) > but I disable locking based on inactivity. As long as this works, I'm happy. > > But it doesn't work reliably for the last few weeks. If I'm away from my > desk for more than a few minutes, the lock screen is frozen when I > return. I can't unlock. I can switch to a different virtual terminal and > kill X, but if I then try to restart X using startx again, it doesn't > come up properly. No windows appear, no panels, and neither the keyboard > nor the mouse do anything except move the cursor. I have to fall back to > rebooting. > > When I reboot and startx again, things start up as they should. Except > that all my previous windows are on the first desktop, overlapping like > crazy. Moving them where they should be is very annoying and tedious. I > have to do this at least once per day, sometimes more often. It's not > just a matter of rearranging the windows, I also have to re-establish > all the SSH sessions. And, of course, any active commands that were > running were terminated so I may have some clean-up to do, also. > > My machine is completely up-to-date with the latest Fedora. Even the > kernel is up-to-date due to the frequent reboots. The F23 was not an > upgrade, it was originally installed fresh using the workstation image > (but choosing KDE, not Gnome). Just to follow-up. Since about Tuesday this week, the problem has gone away. I presume it was due to some update installed automatically. -- Dave Close _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
