GNOME 3.8, Dual Monitor - Lock Screen Problem

I don't know if this is the best place to post this, but here it goes.
If I use a dual monitor configuration in GNOME, when I lock the screen, X hangs.
I can still access a TTY and restart GDM.
I don't know where I can find any useful information about what is going on, but maybe someone can point me into the right direction.
Last edited by surion (2013-06-20 10:33:16)

Have you tried to enable sna ? A lot o problem with gnome and GDM 3.8 seems to be solved that way.
To do so, create this file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf
and add in it:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "intel"
Option "AccelMethod" "sna"
EndSection
See here for details : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … ion_method

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