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d.hensen

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Registered: 2015-10-08

Posts: 19

GDM: Blackscreen with frozen cursor after logout from DE/WM

I use GDM to login to a Gnome DE environment, but I also have Awesome WM installed.
Today I wanted to logout from my Gnome env to login on my Awesome env, when I pressed logout it gave me a black screen with the last cursor I was using fixed in the middle of my screen. Keyboard seemed to be disabled and mouse also. I was able to login over ssh though.

I normally never use logout, but only shutdown or restart so I'm not able to exactly pinpoint to what upgrade's I did.

(as I'm typing now my touchpad(???) is sending random clicks/drags on the screen, so maybe this is related... this just started now.. omg..)

I tried this https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GD … _on_logout but that doesnt solve anything in my case. I don't know where to look.. /var/log/gdm is empty.

Any ideas?

uname -r
4.1.13-1-lts

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leeking

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Registered: 2014-02-14

Posts: 3

Re: GDM: Blackscreen with frozen cursor after logout from DE/WM

according to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 9#p1600369
added WaylandEnable=false in /etc/gdm/custom.conf and restart gdm will help