On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 07:17:03PM -0500, Brian Wood wrote:
> Two or three times since I installed Linux Mint last week,
> I've come back to my laptop and not been able to get
> the screensaver to give me a prompt where I can enter my
> password.  The mouse still moves around, but pressing
> keys seems to have no effect.  I wind up powering off the
> machine and then restarting it.  I haven't configured the
> screensaver in any way.  Any ideas on how to fix that?

Will Ctl-Alt-F1 still get you to a terminal when it's in this state?

>From there, I'd expect you could ps to identify the screensaver
process and kill it.

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Scott Raun
sraun at fireopal.org