# Instability of Supercollider

**URL:** <https://forum.toplap.org/t/instability-of-supercollider/753>\
**Category:** Foxdot\
**Created:** [19 August 2019 20:27 UTC](https://forum.toplap.org/t/instability-of-supercollider/753 "2019-08-19T20:27:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![jean31270](https://forum.toplap.org/user_avatar/forum.toplap.org/jean31270/32/362_2.png) [@jean31270](https://forum.toplap.org/u/jean31270)\
**Post date:** [19 August 2019 20:27 UTC](https://forum.toplap.org/t/instability-of-supercollider/753/1 "2019-08-19T20:27:23Z")

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I have a problem with SC that freezes or just disappears when a browser is on the road or when I change my desktop (as a reminder I’m on linux lubuntu). However, as I am a beginner with FoxDot I always need help with mouse, so it’s pretty painful.  
Do you know this problem and can you point me to a solution?  
I posted a message in the Supercollider thread. No answer for the moment.

Thank you in advance and congratulations for your responsiveness.

Jean

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**Author:** ![ryan](https://forum.toplap.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@ryan](https://forum.toplap.org/u/ryan)\
**Post date:** [20 August 2019 09:00 UTC](https://forum.toplap.org/t/instability-of-supercollider/753/2 "2019-08-20T09:00:22Z")

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I think the best advice you will get will be from the SuperCollider community, especially when it comes to running it on Linux. I can’t offer any suggestions I’m afraid but hopefully someone in the community will be able to help.

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**Author:** ![jean31270](https://forum.toplap.org/user_avatar/forum.toplap.org/jean31270/32/362_2.png) [@jean31270](https://forum.toplap.org/u/jean31270)\
**Post date:** [20 August 2019 10:43 UTC](https://forum.toplap.org/t/instability-of-supercollider/753/3 "2019-08-20T10:43:37Z")

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I loosely bypassed the problem using emacs to launch supercollider. My problem is solved.

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**Author:** ![jwmatthys](https://forum.toplap.org/user_avatar/forum.toplap.org/jwmatthys/32/364_2.png) [@jwmatthys](https://forum.toplap.org/u/jwmatthys)\
**Post date:** [21 August 2019 00:53 UTC](https://forum.toplap.org/t/instability-of-supercollider/753/4 "2019-08-21T00:53:17Z")

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You can avoid the Supercollider gui by launching sclang from the terminal. Then you can type `FoxDot.start` as usual.