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Several ways to restart Cinnamon in Linux Mint
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| 1. Hit ctrl+alt+esc | |
| 2. Hit Alt+F2, type r, and press Enter | |
| 3. Switch to another tty, for example tty6, by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F6 | |
| Run: | |
| pkill -HUP -f "cinnamon --replace" | |
| Return to tty8 by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F8 |
These don't work when the keyboard and mouse are completely locked up. Plan ahead for the next time. I set up the ssh server on Mint. When it locks up, I go in through ssh (from another system) and do the pkill as given above. Usually works.
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3 was the only one that did anything, and it just put me on a black console screen that ignored all my keyboard inputs. Is there something I can do to get around that?