This went away with a recent (approx 2 months ago) update to the kernel and was OK up to 4.12.14-lp151.28.79-default. It has just come back with 4.12.14-lp151.28.83-default. NVIDIA driver is unchanged throughout. # gnome --version /usr/lib/gnome-session-binary 3.26.1 /etc/gdm/custom.conf: [daemon] InitialSetupEnable=False WaylandEnable=false /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager: DISPLAYMANAGER_XSERVER="Xorg" DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm"