jhpratt's questions

Please read: See the last bit. I don't believe this is an issue related to Ubuntu, but rather VS Code.

Recently, under 17.10 and 18.04 (I just upgraded today), Ubuntu will randomly and completely freeze. I cannot move the cursor or use the keyboard. Naturally, I have tried switching to a TTY session with no success. Every time, I must resort to SysRq + REISUB, which is (obviously) not preferred.

I have attempted to switch graphics drivers, on the theory that it may be that. I was originally using the open source nVidia driver, and switched to the proprietary to no avail. I'm currently using the open source driver.

All that I typically have open is Firefox (not a ton of tabs loaded) and VS Code, with at most a couple files and a terminal open.

Any ideas?

Update: The system logs show no indication of anything at all happening, let alone something wrong. I don't know if this is related, but sometimes (and especially after booting) programs take a significant amount of time (> 5-10 seconds), even command line programs.

Yet another update! — Even with all GNOME extensions disabled, it still crashed. I tried XFCE, which still crashed.

Summary: Ubuntu completely freezes at seemingly random times, leaving no trace in logs, and is not related to any specific desktop environment or GNOME extensions.

(likely final) update: I'm convinced this is an issue with VS Code. I have been running GNOME for days, with other Electron apps open (Slack, Pulse, etc.), and have not had a single freeze. I have DM'd VS Code on Twitter, and will likely file a bug report as they haven't responded yet.

NB: My question is essentially identical to this, but it was recommended I open a new question as the given solution doesn't work.

Basically, I have Firefox Develop Edition installed. I managed to add the icon to the dock, and changed the icon to be correct. As such, I am 100% certain this is the correct .desktop file to be editing.

This is my firefox-developer.desktop file:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=Firefox Developer Edition
Icon=/home/jhpratt/.local/share/umake/web/firefox-dev/browser/chrome/icons/default/default128.png
Exec=/home/jhpratt/.local/share/umake/web/firefox-dev/firefox %u
Comment=Firefox Aurora with Developer tools
Categories=Development;IDE;
Terminal=false
StartupWMClass=Firefox Developer Edition

The final line of this is what the recommended solution in the post above is. Running xprop WM_CLASS and clicking on the Firefox window returns WM_CLASS(STRING) = "Navigator", "Firefox Developer Edition". I have tried setting StartupWMClass to Navigator, Firefox Developer Edition, and Navigator, Firefox Developer Edition, none of which have worked. I restarted my session in between.

Update: It does not work in a Wayland session, but works as expected in Xorg.

Is it possible to have one or more extra TZs in the status bar, as I'd asked here (that was for Unity, though, so it's not a dupe).

How can I turn off the AP hotspot through the terminal, since when I turn it off in network settings the program crashes.

Also: How do I get networking to start when the computer boots up? It doesn't for whatever reason