Workspaces Queston *answered*

[Liam Proven]

On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 at 15:01, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:

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> I normally am able to do an ssh from another system to the the one in question. I do it frequently and most generally I have a connection running. I use it for maintenance purposes on my wife's system. She is not technically savy, so I use  the window I have open on her system to do so. Avoids having to disturb her stuff and keeps her system up to date.
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> In this case I tried to do an ssh to my system from another one (my laptop). I got a prompt to enter the password for the locked up system, entered it and NOTHING happened for over 12 hours...

That is some very severe system overload then!

What device is your swap on? How much RAM do you have in the machine?

> I noticed your latest response about using other browsers, perhaps that is what I should be doing. I will try to put some of the more intensive windows on Chrome. What is Waterfox? I will try to do the ctl-alt-F1 and ctl-alt-F7 thing next time it happens.

At least with Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6] you don't really need to wait for a
login prompt. Just a text cursor should be enough

Waterfox is a fork of Firefox that still lets you use the old classic
Firefox extensions.
https://waterfox.net/

I use the Classic version. I had browser customisations that Firefox
Quantum still can't do. (Merged bookmarks and tab sidebars in one
sidebar; a downloads tab; a smart downloads manager; and some other
things.)

> Does Thunderbird sound reasonable as a choice for email? Just curious here..

Yes, sure. It's what I use at work. At home I just use it to keep a
local backup of my mailbox; for everything else, I use Gmail's web
interface.

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