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Sometimes, Cinnamon loses its silly little mind while my screens are turned off...

It can be (mostly) brought back to normalcy from an SSH session into the machine.

The cinnamon '''--replace''' process can be sent the '''HUP''' signal which will trigger it to restart, thus preserving your open window and running applications.

<code>pkill -HUP -f "cinnamon --replace"</code>

This will take care to send the '''HUP''' signal to a process that matches the pattern, "'''cinnamon --replace'''". The signal '''HUP''' (''SIGHUP'') tells the process to "Hang Up".

(From [https://askubuntu.com/questions/143838/how-do-i-restart-cinnamon-from-the-tty Here])

'''NOTE:''' Some applications (Looking at YOU Firefox)  cannot seem to put individual windows back into their proper workspaces.

Sometimes, it seems to be the screensaver that's hung.

<code>pkill -HUP -f "cinnamon-screensaver"</code>

Seems to bring it back to life...

'''BUT:''' What the hell has died when the cursor follows the mouse movement, but you can't click???

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