Fix Force Quit (X Is Not Responding) Dialog Freezing GNOME Shell 3.34 | Linux Today

Fix Force Quit (X Is Not Responding) Dialog Freezing GNOME Shell 3.34

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Nov 19, 2019

Are you getting a “Application / game is not responding. You may choose to wait for a short while for it to continue or force the application to quit entirely” message when trying to run a game or an application that takes a long time to start on GNOME 3.34 with Xorg, this causing GNOME Shell to become unresponsive / freeze with some screen flickering on top? This article presents a very simple workaround for this issue.

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