F23 KDE stability issues

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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 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).
-- 
Dave Close
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