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 <
michael@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
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