On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 1:08 PM, MAH Maccallum <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Thanks, Andrew. I will check those possibilities. A problem > with the graphics drivers seems likely in that I get the same > result with my default (test) user as with my own personal login. > However, logging in as root gives a perfectly normal Gnome > screen.So it may be that somehow a permission got changed. > What's odd is that this all happened in the course of moving > the cursor around and the abrt error message suggests it was > moving the cursor across the clock that caused the problem. Gnome is *not the friend of getting work done*. Seriously. It's become so driven that it interferes with actual work. There is a reason that I still publish RPM tools for vtwm, over at https://github.com/nkadel/vtwm-5.5.x-srpm. Bog stable, provides excellent "virtual" desktop space, and avoids all the funky-tude of destabilizing Gnome features that you simply do not need for normal work. There's been a big thread over in the Fedora mailing lists about how software updates break active Gnome sessions, and the workarounds are fundamentally crazed. I encourage you and other developers and desktop users to avoid using a feature filled toolkit that actively hinders day to day work through its unnecessary complexity.