Workspaces Queston *answered*

[Jay Ridgley]

On 6/12/20 7:18 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 at 18:14, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>> I tried to do an ssh from another system to no avail. How can I find
>> which of the tasks was the culprit? Since there are a total of 10-12
>> open tabs in the 4 instances of firefox running. A power off and restart
>> was the only way I could get passed the problem.
> The easiest way to do a clean shutdown on a locked-up Linux box that
> is disk thrashing is to do 1 of 2 things:
>
> [1]
>
> Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to a text console.
> Wait for it to appear -- it can take many minutes if the machine is
> thrashing hard.
> Press Ctrl+Alt+Del 7 times within a second.
>
> [2]
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/6qphtj/psa_use_reisub_when_ubuntu_stops_responding/
>
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>
> Browser lockups are 1 reason I use 2 browsers. Firefox (well,
> Waterfox) for normal browsing, Chrome for very Javascript-intensive
> stuff.
>
> If one dies, the other is usually fine.
>
  Liam, I got confused Please see the response I sent just minutes ago; 
Pardon me Colin.

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Jay Ridgley
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