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. -- Scott Raun sraun at fireopal.org