SuperTramp83's reply (and the links therein) rose a suspicion in me that
maybe this was caused by some add-on, and a possible conflict it may have
with the window manager of my desktop environment, although, as I said, the
same versions of the same add-ons are installed on another machine
In Trisquel 7.0 (fresh install) Icedove frequently (several times in a span
of a few hours) hangs, by which I mean its window goes completely gray and
doesn't come back from that state. I have to kill it and run it again, till
the same thing happens maybe an hour later. Checking its process,
Hello Trisquel GNU/Linux community,
I'm in the process of liberating a new laptop (Asus X451) from Windows 8.
(Just in case this may help someone later, the WiFi chip in this computer is
by Atheros and works with Linux-libre kernel). The computer in question has
(U)EFI but allows the
