What to do when your Linux Mint 13 screen locks up with Cinnamon

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2013-08
  • justingordon

    It's not all that uncommon for the display to lock up or just get weird on Linux Mint 13 with Cinnamon and 3 displays.

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  • justingordon

    I'll do the following:

    1. Hit Alt-F2, then type 'r' and hit Enter. Sometimes that fixes the problem.

    2. Otherwise, Cinnamon will restart if you kill it (like the Mac Finder).

      • hit Ctrl-Alt-F1, and login to a terminal. Then run this command:
        killall -9 cinnamon
      • hit Ctrl-Alt-F8, to get back to X
      • if you have multiple displays, you'll find windows stretching across displays. Do step #1 of Alt-F2 'r', and that problem should be fixed.

    I found that running cinnamon --replace does not seem to work well.


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  • miq

    I use gnome-do a lot and usually I summon it using [Super] + [Space]. It works just fine on my desktop PC (Linux Mint 11) but on my new ThinkPad T420 (Linux Mint 13) it didn't work that well. I had to either tap super or space twice to open the gnome-do popup. I quickly realized that this was happening due to the keyboard shortcut for menu (super / windows button). I don't need the menu shortcut for anything.

    I already checked in Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts but there was no such setting as "Menu" or "Start menu" or anything like that. Where can I disable the keyboard shortcut for menu?


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  • Cherion

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    1. Go to System Settings
    2. "Locales" (I think it's called that way, but I am note sure since I use a german version of Cinnamon)
    3. "Layouts"
    4. Select your keyboard layout and click on "Options" on the right
    5. "Alt/Win key behavior"
    6. Change it from Default to "Hyper is mapped to Win-keys"

    After performing these steps on Arch Linux with Cinnamon 1.4UP3-1, I was able to use Gnome Do again.

  • Nik Bagdon

    Here is a solution that doesn't require fiddling with system settings. Tested on Mint 14 MATE, but should work on Cinnamon too.

    1. Right-click on Menu icon on bottom left of desktop
    2. Click "Preferences"
    3. In the initial "Main button" tab, click in the field to the right of "Keyboard shortcut"
    4. Press a new hotkey combo (I chose ctrl+win+space)

    Voila - there are now hotkeys for the menu as well as Gnome Do.

  • Kate McKenzie

    On Cinnamon on Linux Mint 13 (Maya) the "Active the window menu" shortcut (bound by default to Alt+Space) is under Menu -> Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts. Just click the relevant row to edit or disable the binding.