Over the last few days, I’ve started experiencing a strange issue where I can’t get back into my windows manager (LXQt) after the computer stood idle for some time (+/- 20 minutes). I can drop into a virtual terminal (CTRL+ALT+F3) and start SSDM, though it’s a little buggy (lots of panels/windows fail to load).
Anyone else experiencing this type of problem?
Additional Information
After a system upgrade that might have updated the Nvidia proprietary drivers, my system complained that it was unable to run xscreensaver. I, therefore, disabled the screen saver and all power saving options. This includes the option to lock the screen when idle.
Also, there’s nothing in the .xsession-errors log.
i would first check if updating system, reinstall nvidia driver and rebuilding kernel-images do the trick.
It happens on archbased that kernel and nvidia is not updating on exactly the same time what cause issues like you have.
the new hook for rebuild images on nvidia update can prevent from that: endeavouros/nvidia-hook sudo pacman -S nvidia-hook
Thank you @joekamprad and @ringo for your suggestions. Also, apologies for not responding earlier… been swamped with work.
The problem has largely resolved itself after I did some updates, but I’m definitely going to try @joekamprad’s suggestion. I will mark it as the solution once I find an opportunity to try it.