linuxmint/Cinnamon — Issue #409: Cinnamon crashes, screen flickers
Author: Konstigt
Created: 2012-02-23 08:07:43+00:00
State: open

Problem since 1.3 for me; after resuming from suspend I can get this:

Feb 21 15:48:43 thonov-mint gnome-session[29387]: WARNING: App ‘cinnamon.desktop’ respawning too quickly

So after logging in my desktop is without panels and without borders on open windows. I haven’t found any other solution than to kill -9 my gnome-session pid to get the login screen again.

I just now did a suspend after upgrading to 1.3.1 and I still had this issue.

If I don't run avant-window-navigator, the issue is not as bad, then it's mostly just a flicker. To show what I mean by flicker I recorded this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fexmgCk-RxQ

First you get the login screen after resume, then I enter the password, then I see the entire desktop briefly, then just the wallpaper, then the entire desktop again.