hibernate - Mint cinnamon doesn't load after hibernation

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2013-08
  • SteveL

    From the time I installed mint 13 (cinnamon) I cant hibernate and resume correctly . every time when i do pm-hibernate the system hibernates but when i resume cinnamon is not loaded , the icons and all are a mesh and if i try to restart cinnamon the system freezes (same if i try to do cinnamon --replace on a terminal).

    I have plenty of swap (10GB and my ram is only 2GB)

                 total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          2013       1773        240          0         20        356
-/+ buffers/cache:       1396        616
Swap:        10313        255      10058
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  • Izzy

    As you didn't state your hardware details, only a generic answer is possible. I'd guess some part of your hardware is causing trouble on suspend/resume, as it is often the case (some video-drivers are know for that). That's where SUSPEND_MODULES kicks in: modules defined here are unloaded on suspend, and reloaded on resume -- so concerning the problematic hardware it looks like shutdown/startup. To give you one reference: Here is one thread on the Linux Mint forums dealing with similar trouble on a Sony Vaio, and here's another dealing with sdhci causing trouble on a HP Pavilion. These are just examples, you will find many more on a search for "SUSPEND_MODULES", best with some hardware specs (hint: some wifi hardware also often is the cause for this kind of trouble, same applies to graphics and tv-cards).


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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.

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  • Cherion

    source

    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.