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I have a new HP Z BOOK 15 and I terminated windows and installed Ubuntu 14.04. All are working fine except that at certain times when I suspend the laptop and log back in again, the window panels get blank.

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Here is the image of how it looks after logging back in after a suspend.

It happens all the time BUT only after two or three suspends.

I know that this is a question that cannot have a direct answer (or maybe it does!!) as I don't have any details that I can provide to explain further than the image itself.

mmoisse
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Srivatsan
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  • Does restarting compiz or unity help? It should not close your windows, but might move them to a different workspace. You can achieve this by running `compiz --replace` or `unity --replace` in a terminal. (see here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/31167/how-can-i-restart-compiz-from-tty-related-how-can-i-set-up-a-fallback-wm#31171) – Kai May 19 '14 at 13:54
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    I go though your lappy **HP Z BOOK 15** details. The problem relates to your Graphics Drivers. your lappy supports `Intel HD Graphics 4600` `NVIDIA Quadro K610M` `NVIDIA Quadro K2100M` graphics drivers. Find out and install one by one from three of them. Try it. – Abdul Kadir May 21 '14 at 11:42
  • This problem [looks similar to this.][1] [1]: http://askubuntu.com/questions/471181/blank-screen-after-suspend-hibernate-on-14-04 – Bulrush Oct 27 '14 at 17:36

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I'm not sure why it happens after 2 or 3 suspends. Short of running 

tail -f /var/log/syslog

before and after a bad suspend, it will be difficult to tell.

I believe you can, however, run 

compiz --replace

from a terminal to fix your window issues (it's worked for me in the past, sometimes waking up from suspend I won't have window borders to click/close/minimize).

Try to get a pre and post log so we can look at that and figure out what's going wrong when suspending that causes this.

lbaile200
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I also get occasional glitches like this after suspend, which can usually be resolved by switching to console (CTRL-ALT-F1) and then back to the desktop (ALT-F7).

matt2000
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I faced the same problem. I found the solution here.

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS black screen after login 

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -y
sudo reboot
Nakul Parmar
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This problem looks similar to this one. It looks like the solution is in there, open all the comments. Both the suspend and hibernate may have the same root problem.

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Bulrush
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Try resetting your compiz configurations by entering the following into terminal:

dconf reset -f /org/compiz/

Hope it works.

Sâu
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You may be able to see an error in the display/driver message log that will tell you what is causing this. To do this, open up a new terminal window and run the following command to view logs in a paging view:

dmesg | more

To go to the next page of logs, simply press spacebar.

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