What to do when gnome-shell freezes?

This is a repost, because no one had popper solution. What to do when gnome-shell freezes?

Everything works correctly (music is still playing etc.), just the gui freezes. I am able to ctrl+alt+f1.

What can I do after logging in the ctrl+alt+f1 terminal, in order to restore gnome-shell? If gnome-shell worked, I'd just hit alt+f2 and run r.

sometimes my gnome shell gets a weird bug. What I need to do then is to click e.g Ctrl + Alt + F3 When I am there i can login and then

killall gnome-shell

Then I go back to the first Ctrl + Alt + F1 (what do you call them tty1, tty2, tty3 ...

Are there any tricks for speeding up Gnome Shell, such as by disabling any extra "flashy" features?

I tried installing the Disable Window Animations Extension, but I haven't noticed any difference.

I've been using Gnome Shell under Ubuntu 11.10 for a few weeks now, and I generally like the new interface (and much prefer it over Unity).

(NOTE: the title came up wrong, it should have been: "Gnome-shell freezes for about two minutes after login")

About two weeks ago the following started happening in my F17 installation. After I login, I get the desktop but then gnome-shell freezes for a couple of minutes. I can move the mouse but the desktop is not responsive.

I hope this is the appropriate forum. This is actually 2 issues in one because the core issue had a work around for me which I was willing to put up with so I'll describe the whole thing.

1) Ever since 10.04, gnome-sheel will freeze every so often for some reason that I have not been able to determine (happens at different times running different things).

I have installed Arch Linux on my desktop, however I am getting random complete system freezes when I use either GNOME Shell or KDE 4 when using OpenGL compositing. I have resorted to using Xfce (which uses Xrender for compositing).Sometimes the system freezes immediately upon login.Sometimes GNOME Shell says "Oh no!

After installed gnome-shell session on Ubuntu 12.04, you may be interested to try out a few themes on your desktop, and this simple tutorial will show you how to do it. Preparation:   Apart from ensuring you actually have gnome-shell installed, the first thing need to do is installing gnome-tweak-tool and gnome-shell-extensions-user-theme. Press Ctrl+Alt+T to launch terminal, and type in this

Hello All

Installed and updated i386 Precise today on a recycled HP xw6200 PC with quad xeon and nvidia GT520 graphics, restricted drivers as installed from Jockey.

New gnome-shell (3.3.90-0ubuntu1) avoids earlier search bug, but has frozen a couple of times, last one when scrolling in a small LibreOffice document. Unity not freezing.

Unity and Cinnamon Desktops work properly, but Gnome Shell presents me with wallpaper and one of my startup apps with undecorated windows (e.g. no controls and title bar/borders).