I recently started working from home full-time (as everyone else here, thanks to Covid-19), and I noticed the following strange behavior when remote-controlling my work PC via RDP:  Sometimes, the RDP window will just stop showing screen updates, as if the remote screen were "frozen". It looks like the RDP session is stuck, but it isn't:   After reconnecting, I can see that all the keyboard and mouse events I sent after the screen froze have been processed. The mouse cursor still changes according to what is really underneath: If I drag and drop a window a few centimeters, the window will still be shown at the old position, but the cursor changes to the "resize" cursor when I hover over the new position of the border of the window.   It's not a temporary network issue either:   If I wait, the screen just stays frozen (I tried it for many minutes while writing this question). If I close the RDP session and reconnect, everything works fine again (until it freezes again at some random time).   Switching from full-screen to windowed mode and vice versa doesn't help. It looks like a bug in the RDP client or server (both machines are Windows 10 1909).  Is it a known issue? Is there some known workaround (except for closing and reconnecting)?
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I use a Windows 10 machine remotely at work. Both the local and remote machine are in the same ISP network (not same local network, but same ISP). I've been using it like that for almost a year now and I had never experienced absolutely any issues.  Until recently. I don't know if anything specific triggered this behavior, but I feel that it started happening after I upgraded the remote to W10 1903. I later upgraded the local one as well and I feel that it only made the problem worse (but I don't really have any data).  From time to time, the session will freeze - the image stops updating. However, what I type and mouse clicks are still being sent. No error message is shown whatsoever, the image simply freezes. To make it work again, I have to close and re-open the session. Everything that I had typed and/or clicked while it was frozen is there.  Is there any way I can debug this?
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My office job routinely sees me connected to a Linux box via VNC.  Sometimes I start a remote job on the console, and realize later that it runs much longer than expected. (Should have started that one under Screen in the first place...)  I don't want to keep my workstation running overnight just to keep the VNC session open; I would like  to move that already-running remote job into a Screen session (on the remote box), so I can power down the workstation (and reconnect next morning).  How can this be done, if at all?
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I know it is so weird, but last night I set an image on my desktop background and delete the image, then I right-click on the desktop and press the desktop properties to change the style of background (center, stretch and etc) then the desktop properties stopped something like hanging on Windows.   Then a black window alerted something and I press yes without reading it. after that with right-click on the desktop I just see this:    Even some system applications don't work now. for example, I cannot take a screenshot.  Also, my pcmanfm-qt is dead completely, with the command line or clicking on the icon nothing happens.  I don't know what happens. and I have no idea how to fix it.
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I never had this problem until today. When I watch a youtube video everything is fine, until I make the video fullscreen. It actually continues to play perfectly when fullscreen, but when I then exit fullscreen my sidebar and topbar are gone, and the screen is just frozen. Also my cursor is gone. It does seem to respond to ALT-F4, but it takes about 15 seconds to even close the window, and after that everything is unusable (basically frozen). What's strange though, when I re-enter fullscreen after exiting (and unity being frozen) the video plays perfectly still.   For now my workaround is opening tty1 and executing pkill -u username which logs off the user. I have looked at /var/log/syslog but it seems to be empty.  Is this freezing a common problem, if not, how can I make steps to fix this?    EDIT with specs:  I'm on a simple Samsung laptop with:  Ubuntu 14.10 64-bit,  Intel® Core™ i5-3210M,  Intel® Ivybridge Mobile (So integrated intel hd graphics 4000),  8GB ram. I don't think i've ever changed my video drivers, but it's reported as i915.  Ubuntu is up to date, and my browser is Chrome 40.0.2214.91 (64-bit). (Will test out now with firefox, but already posting this because my pc might freeze again)     EDIT 2: It doesn't freeze on Firefox. Will try reinstalling chrome now... EDIT 3: Reinstalling chrome didn't help. Will try chrome 32-bit too now...
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If I'm logged into a remote Linux machine, I know I can suspend a process (cntr-z) and move it to the background (bg 1) but if I disconnect from the machine, the process stops.  Is there a way I can leave it in the background and have it there when I log back in? This is a very long running process.  On Ubuntu, logged in via SSH.
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Is there a way, using the keyboard, to switch from a maximized (full screen) Remote Desktop Connection back to the main computer?  I have about 4 Remote Desktop connections that I am switching between and it would be nice to not have to go to the mouse each time I want to switch.  I know I can press Ctrl+Alt+Break and that normalizes the remote desktop screen.  That is close, but I would like a way to just minimize it (so I don't have to normalize->switch->maximize each time I want to switch screens)
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I will often click on a button expecting it to be clicked but instead all that happens is the application it is in becomes active, and I have to click again to actually click the button.  It would be nice if this second click wasn't needed, which leads me to my question:     How can I make it so that when I move the mouse cursor over an inactive window, it becomes active?
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I have a Windows 7 computer that is acting as a Media Center so it is always on but not always in use.  I would like to be able to log in to this machine remotely and launch some scripts that take time to compute. If I use Remote Desktop I can get a view of the desktop and use it but the media center view gets blocked (I get the log in screen). If I use LogMeIn, the media center application closes (not compatible with remote use) and the both the remote and media center views are the same.  Is there a way to access the computer remotely to launch and monitor these scripts while not disturbing the media center users?
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In Windows (and probably in other operating systems), if a process has a TCP connection with another process on another machine, and then I terminate the process, an RST packet will be sent to the other machine to indicate the end of the connection.  Now imagine that when the process is terminated, there were still some data left in the send buffer. What will happen in this case, will these remaining data be sent to the other machine followed by an RST packet, or will these remaining data be ignored and only an RST packet is sent?
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I sometimes remote into my desktop PC (1900x1280) from my laptop (1280x900).  When I do, Windows (Vista) on the desktop PC rearranges all my desktop icons.  I could understand this if the RDP session's desktop size was too small to fit them in, but it's not.  I have about 12 icons, which do fit on the laptop's resolution (I've tried).  Why would Windows rearrange them all like this each time?
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Ideally, this can be done for a non-virtual installation of Windows 7 and without the use of an RDP client connection.  There are numerous blog posts, , etc that include screen shots of the Windows 7 logon screen... how did they do it?
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So I am doing a thumbnail for my team, and when I load my project, I can zoom and move around for about 20 seconds before it's not working, I can now do anything, but zoom in or out and movie my camera so I can't see the back, and it's really annoying. It's like my screen freeze, but I can look around. It does that to all of my project. I am on Macbook Air on Blender 2.8.  I found out it is when I am at like 2m from my 3D skin it starts to slow down and stop. Does any one know how to fix it?
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so as I say in the title I have this very big, annoying problem. On my new PC (HP Omen 2020, i7-10750h, Nvidia RTX 2070, 16GB RAM) when I connect an external hard drive (precisely an WD My Passport Ultra, 3TB) I get occasionally mouse and keyboard freezes. Practically, the system becomes unusable. The mouse and keyboards works, they even show in device manager, but from time to time (too often) they &quot;freezes&quot;: mouse pointer freeze, and it won't respond to my input, and keyboard too, if I type something it will not respond. First I thought this was a behaviour due to bad drivers, or something related to my new PC, the fact that it has USB 3.1 ports. But then I've noticed that this fact happens only when I connect my WD Hard Disk (which is USB 3.0) to my pc. I've tried some stuff online, suggesting to update drivers, change some windows settings, but with no success. My guess is that the hard disk and the mouse-keyboard does interfere with each other in some ways. I guess that it's a software problem, at driver levels maybe, not a physical one. When the mouse doesn't respond, I've tried to use the touchpad on the notebook, and it does work. So it's not a windows freeze, it's just the device (mouse-keyboard-receiver) that doesn't respond. The mouse and keyboard are from Logitech, bot connected with the Unifiying receiver (a wireless receiver they provide for the mouse and the keyboard). Model: MX Anywhere 2S for the mouse, K360 for the keyboard. Please, help me solve this problem, monday I start taking my engineering class lessons from MS Teams, and I need my pc up and running and well responsive (I need to access data from the hard disk while I take classes). PS: I've seen that there are some other questions like this in the forum, but none of them seems to provide a solution to the problem. I would also change the external hard drive in the future, but I need to know that the problem with this one won't show with another hard drive, or other devices. I've already sent this very same post to Microsoft community, I really need help with this thing otherwise it will be a problem following my online classes. Thank you if you will try to help me EDIT: On the notebook in question I have 4 USB 3.1 Ports, with two ports on each side, and a single Type-C Thunderbolt port (I'm not counting that one cause both the hard disk and the logitech receiver are USB 3.0 type A connectors). I've already tried switching USB port, connecting the WD Hard Disk to another port, doing the same on the logitech receiver, and I've even tried putting them one on the left side and the other to the right side, to minimize &quot;interference&quot; as someone suggested. But nothing, I still got this problem, which seems driver-related. Hope this will give more info
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Does any know how to get the RDP version Windows is running with?
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I have two different machines (home and work) running Ubuntu 18.04. Last night vim froze at home. I was in insert mode and typing and went to save (esc :w) and nothing happened. The status bar still reads -- INSERT --, the cursor is still blinking where it was. I was stuck. I couldn't find a way out. I couldn't type (nothing happened when I type), I couldn't move around (the up and down arrows did nothing). It was stuck in insert mode with the cursor blinking where it was.   I was definitely multitasking and probably hit some other keys in there, but I don't know what keys. It was late, though, so I closed the terminal window and tried again (I was entering a git commit message). It happened again partway through my typing so I switched to git commit -m "don't need an editor for this" instead. And then I shut down my computer and stopped working.  I figured I was just tired, but then it happened to me today at work on a different laptop altogether. Again I was multitasking and can't swear I didn't type any bizarro key sequence but if I did it was accidental. And other tabs in the same terminal aren't frozen.   I'm used to getting trapped in visual mode in vim. That's a trick I've learned. But stuck in insert mode? Any ideas on what I might've done and how to get out of it?   Per a comment suggestion I tried looking at .viminfo but the only .viminfo I see is owned exclusively by root and only appears to show things I would have edited with sudo:   # Input Line History (newest to oldest):  # Debug Line History (newest to oldest):  # Registers:  # File marks: '0  1  0  /etc/neomuttrc |4,48,1,0,1531789956,"/etc/neomuttrc" '1  1  66  /etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-bionic.list |4,49,1,66,1530816565,"/etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-bionic.list" '2  51  0  /etc/apt/sources.list |4,50,51,0,1530816531,"/etc/apt/sources.list"  # Jumplist (newest first): -'  1  0  /etc/neomuttrc |4,39,1,0,1531789956,"/etc/neomuttrc" -'  1  66  /etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-bionic.list |4,39,1,66,1530816565,"/etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-bionic.list" -'  1  66  /etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-bionic.list |4,39,1,66,1530816565,"/etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-bionic.list" -'  51  0  /etc/apt/sources.list |4,39,51,0,1530816531,"/etc/apt/sources.list" -'  51  0  /etc/apt/sources.list |4,39,51,0,1530816531,"/etc/apt/sources.list" -'  51  0  /etc/apt/sources.list |4,39,51,0,1530816531,"/etc/apt/sources.list" -'  51  0  /etc/apt/sources.list |4,39,51,0,1530816531,"/etc/apt/sources.list" -'  1  0  /etc/apt/sources.list |4,39,1,0,1530816447,"/etc/apt/sources.list" -'  1  0  /etc/apt/sources.list |4,39,1,0,1530816447,"/etc/apt/sources.list" -'  1  0  /etc/apt/sources.list |4,39,1,0,1530816447,"/etc/apt/sources.list" -'  1  0  /etc/apt/sources.list |4,39,1,0,1530816447,"/etc/apt/sources.list"  # History of marks within files (newest to oldest):  &gt; /etc/neomuttrc     *   1531789952  0     "   1   0  &gt; /etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-bionic.list     *   1530816564  0     "   1   66     ^   1   67     .   1   66     +   1   66  &gt; /etc/apt/sources.list     *   1530816454  0     "   51  0   It seems odd that I wouldn't have an unprivileged .viminfo but I did sudo udpatedb and locate .viminfo and still didn't surface more than the one root-owned file.
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My mouse will reconnect/disconnect (will even hear the sounds from Windows), and the light on the bottom of the mouse will turn off/turn on as it starts working again.  It really sucks to be playing a game (and happens on desktop as well) for the mouse to just die out for a few seconds and come back. Sometimes it will not happen for days and other times it will do it two or more times within 15 seconds.  I tried two different wired mice, tried multiple USB ports (on the front of the computer, back of the computer, used a USB hub and plugged in a card that connects to the USB connectors on the motherboard and adds a few USB ports to the back of the computer, and I also bought a USB 2.0 PCI card and that did not help).  Nothing else seems to reconnect like this, my USB keyboard has never once cut out like the mouse does and neither have any of the other devices I have connected (webcam, USB hub, various devices sometimes connected through USB cables, and IR receiver for windows Media Center remote). I have disconnected all USB devices except for my keyboard and mouse and the problem still occurs.  I guess it could be something wrong with my motherboard but since no other devices behave similarly I'm just hoping that it is some kind of driver conflict. Installing Logitech's drivers has had no effect. It seemed at first that if I go to  and uninstall  mouse (that and Logitech mx518 are listed) that would fix it, but it doesn't seem to work anymore or at least not every time (it keeps re-installing).  I have googled "USB mouse disconnects and reconnects", and it seems to be fairly common but none of those were resolved.  To stick some easy steps:   It happens with or without the drivers installed It has happened with multiple mice on the same computer The BIOS is the latest version (P08) Motherboard drivers are the latest version Device Manager isn't listing any problems on any USB devices Happens with every USB port, even addon USB cards Happens when all USB devices aside from mouse and keyboard are unplugged   I read that maybe it is an IRQ conflict, and I tried to look into that but did not really know what was going on, but didn't see anything obviously wrong.  Specifications:     CPU EVGA 780I SLI motherboard 4&nbsp;GB RAM  mouse Windows&nbsp;7 64-bit  screen card 650&nbsp;W power supply (single rail).
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I am trying to make my main desktop be able to reboot right into the desktop without asking for a password, but I still want to be secure when I'm accessing it remotely. No one is ever going to physically touch my PC except me, but security is security dealing with Remote Desktop.   How can I enable RDP without having to type the password locally?