[ubuntu-uk] Freezing apps .... was in connection with Thunderbird

[Barry Drake]

Hi there .....  There were some recent posts about Thunderbird 
freezing.  This morning, I had a similar experience with Gparted.  I 
wanted to shrink the partition on a 32 GiB SD card and make an EXT3 
partition in the unallocated space.  Android can use this for extra 
storage.  First using Trusty - it froze and greyed out.  The SD was 
still flashing, but after several minutes, it stopped flashing and 
Gparted crashed.  Exactly the same thing happened on Utopic.

My wife has Saucy on her PC and Gparted did the job just fine on that 
one.  This seems to be a far wider problem than Thunderbird. At the 
moment, as of yesterday's update, Utopic is barely useable. I think 
there's some conflict in Compiz.  Maybe that will go away in the next 
few updates, but in view of this freezing problem, I wonder if there is 
an underlying fault in Unity/Compiz?  Any thoughts?

Regards,        Barry Drake.