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

Question

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.

Answer 1

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.