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My 12.04 Ubuntu laptop freezes every time I close my lid. I have recently installed Gnome 3.8 on my computer and removed it because I did not like it. It is probably caused because of that. And now, every time I close my lid, the only chance I have is restarting my laptop.

I just want to be able to suspend peacefully. Any help is accepted.

Fabby
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belay neh
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I installed Xscreensaver to get rid of this problem:

sudo apt-get install xscreensaver xscreensaver-data-extra

then remove the gnome screen saver:

sudo apt-get remove gnome-screensaver

then go to the "startup applications" and press Add and in the command type:

xscreensaver -nosplash

In the name and description you can enter anything you want, the press Save and close

log out and log back in and problem gone!

Fabby
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  • And as you're a reputation 1 user: If this all works, don't forget to click the grey check-mark under the "0" at the left of this text, which means "yes, this answer is valid"! ;-) – Fabby Jan 21 '15 at 10:33
  • Well, you shouldn't say any help is accepted then... ;-) Did you restore your back-up? Did you start making one??? :P – Fabby Jan 21 '15 at 19:01
  • when you get back from suspend, does [Ctrl][Alt][F1] do something? if yes, pressing [Ctrl][Alt][F7] restore everything? – Fabby Jan 21 '15 at 19:09
  • i do not know about those, but ctrl + alt + F5 or F6 opens up something like terminal, would that help – belay neh Jan 21 '15 at 19:16
  • @belayneh: I missed that remark (next time type @Fabby) but yes: [Ctrl][Alt][F5] is good too! – Fabby Feb 12 '15 at 05:55
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    Thank you for all your help, so very much, but I managed to fix the problem( I can safely suspend now ). i managed to do this by installing xScreensaver. That did it all for me. And I can also Hibernate now! – belay neh Feb 12 '15 at 13:59
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    I would love that – belay neh Feb 13 '15 at 11:44