Wow, I've been using Cinnamon for a few years now and other than not being able to get rid of "Recent Files" I haven't had an issue yet. It "just works" on both my laptop and desktop. Not that this helps with the mouse\keyboard issue, sorry.
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Michael Butash <mich...@butash.net> wrote: > Might be an issue with lightdm, or whatever they use on ubuntu mint these > days. Maybe try a different login manager like gdm (if usable still?) or > kdm? > > I'd say ssh in and see what syslog or x logs show. > > I have/had a weird issue like this using lmde with mate, where recently my > trackpad would stop working on me after about a minute into using the > desktop from lightdm login manager. Plugging in a usb mouse would work, > but quite annoying to now have to carry a mouse. I tried fiddling with the > trackpad settings, seemed something related to the desktop is "turning it > off", but I've no idea what, and see no dmesg/syslog output occur when it > does. Not sure at all if this is same since your issue seems to be > lightdm, but maybe some regression in the desktop system since cinnamon and > mate seem to share gconf settings. > > Quick fix was moving to kde, as cinnamon already proved far too buggy for > use, and apparently so is mate as that was the final straw. I migrated > from mate to kde on my desktop as well as mate provided all sorts of new > and not-so-interesting bugs there as well. > > -mb > > > On 12/28/2014 07:26 PM, koder wrote: > >> I would appreciate some guidance troubleshooting a problem on my computer. >> >> I am running Mint 17.1 on a relatively new Dell XPS i7 box. >> >> Since I installed Mint I have been having instances of arriving at the >> login screen and the USB keyboard and mouse are not recognized. >> >> I am not able to use the mouse to place the cursor in the login field for >> password entry. >> >> The instances are now three or four times in succession per login session. >> >> Every time I boot up the system goes into the GRUB boot menu and I am >> able to move the cursor around and move amongst the menu choices. >> >> I have looked over my dmesg output for successful and unsuccessful boots >> and not received much enlightenment. They are about 950 lines of text. I >> suspect I ought not to post them. >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> Harold >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Love, sex, food, friendship, play, beauty and the simple pleasure of a cold beer are all well and good, but never forget that the universe is determined to kill you by whatever means necessary.
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