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  • For a start, tell us what desktop environment or WM you use. Then, check ~/.xsession-errors and /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Next time it freezes, try dropping to a tty (hit Ctrl+Alt+F2). Does that work? Can you log in? Also activate a shortcut that kills the X server, does that work? Commented Oct 4, 2013 at 3:25
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    Can you figure out a way to remove gnome-tweak-tool? That seems to be the devil.. Commented Oct 4, 2013 at 6:33
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    can you post the output of lspci | grep VGA | cut -d' ' -f1 | xargs -n1 lspci -v -s. That will tell us what video card(s) and driver(s) you have. Commented Oct 4, 2013 at 9:04
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    Try switching to the proprietary Nvidia driver and see if that helps. Commented Oct 4, 2013 at 9:46
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    @simona: See wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers I haven't used these instructions myself, so I can't say whether they will work. In the past I've used module-assistant to compile the nvidia kernel modules, but these instructions may be better Commented Oct 4, 2013 at 10:52