I’ll give it a shot, thanks!

It seems the running application remains responsive, but not anything else.

I was running RStudio on an external monitor once when it froze, and I could keep using the window. Even when I used touch gestures to “zoom” the window out, I remained in control over it and could execute code in the smaller window. But I could not interact with GNOME at all, including changing to another program on the same screen.

Another time it froze as I wrote a PieFed comment, and I pressed tab and enter a few times. The comment was published so I could continue where I left off.

First time in almost 20 years of Linux usage I’m encountering real problems, and I’m much too primitive to do anything clever about it.

Does it seem to be a Fedora problem?

Perhaps the greatest takeaway from this entire fiasco is yet another reminder of the precarious position open source projects with a solo maintainer leave their user base in - especially when that maintainer is a teenager whose priorities are subject to changing rapidly as they get older and discover more about the world than discarded Ubuntu interfaces

What a terrible takeaway. I’d rather say that the takeaway is that all things come to an end, even Unity 7 which it’s honestly incredible didn’t die ages ago.

Those interested in keeping on working on Unity should perhaps focus their efforts instead on Lomiri, the community continuation of Unity 8 and default environment in Ubuntu Touch.

Here’s a demonstration from two months ago, running desktop apps like Librewolf on an external monitor powered by Ubuntu Touch on a Fairphone 4. It is of course not limited to Ubuntu Touch; Ubuntu Touch is just the only distro where it’s the default interface.

I had problems while an external monitor was connected on Fedora 42, but as I don’t use it often I figured I could live with it. Now it seemed to have gotten worse. Once the second monitor was working but GNOME was acting weird. So yes, that absolutely does seem related.

Ah shit. This is it.

Just my luck that GNOME 49 just dropped support for X11. I guess if it’s unbearable I can downgrade.

At least now I know what to watch. Thank you!

Thanks! I didn’t even realize this was an option - very useful to know! Will check it out if the crashes keep up. :)

That sounds familiar - I will look into this if the crashes return (it has been stable for a couple of hours now). Going wild with screen brightness and night light does not seem to trigger anything.

I’m on Wayland and pretty vanilla Fedora with GNOME.

I will run this next time it crashes (if it happens again) - after freezing several times in a row earlier it has been steady the last couple of hours, so the last crash is outside of the period of the log that I see now.

Thanks!

who:

user  seat0  2025-10-29 16:47  
user  tty3   2025-10-29 16:47  
user  seat0  2025-10-29 16:34  
user  tty2   2025-10-29 16:34  

ls - lh /home:

totalt 0  
drwx-------. 1 user user 794 okt.    29 14:55 user  

This was done before the computer had frozen, I’m not sure if that spoils it.