[SOLVED] Linux Mint 18 'Crashes' When Screensavers Are Interrupted
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Linux Mint 18 'Crashes' When Screensavers Are Interrupted
2017-06-21
Linux Mint 18 frequently 'crashes' when I try to interrupt screensavers from the keyboard or mouse. The system may eventually recover after many hours. Any help from this forum will be much appreciated.
My machine is about 5 years old. I've been using it for about 8 months. It came with Linux Mint pre-installed by the seller. It is based on a Jetway mini-motherboard. I use the XFCE terminal environment. I haven't detected other video problems yet.
How can I find out for sure if my Linux Mint is version 18 or 18.1. Thanks very much.
I am temporarily solving the problem by running 'killall xscreensaver' after I boot up Linux. I wish I could make Linux perform this command automatically at startup.
In other words, how can I execute a script with the above command automatically at startup? I find that crontab is not a simple tool to accomplish this task due to my unfamiliarity with it.
Go to the Xfce menu and look for screens or screensaver applet?
If it is an LCD you could just "blank it" and lose the screensaver altogether (xscreensaver, I believe)
The next time this happens, take a look at the log files in /var/log, particularly syslog and mintsystem.log; you may find some hints of why Mint is crashing.
You can use the tail command to make searching the logs for the most recent entries easier.
I've looked into most of the log files and found no clues. I am inclined to believe that this may very likely be an Xscreensaver interrupt bug. Thanks very much again.
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