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Why are applications freezing?

April 26, 2017applications freezing

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Why are applications freezing?

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If you have enabled sound in gnome, esd (the Enlightenment Sound Daemon) can block applications (including the gnome2.2 media player, totem). This looks like either the application froze, or all of gnome. Use ‘esdctl off’ and ‘esdctl on’ to turn esd off and on without closing down esd. ‘esdctl off’ makes esd free up the sound device so other non-esd applications can use it. Eg, I like to start totem like this: esdctl off && totem && esdctl on Unfortunately, this is the current state of sound in gnome. 10.