Every third or fourth time I wake my computer from suspend the desktop background is not there, only a black desktop. I can see the desktop picture on the login screen where I enter my password but then it goes to black after I log in. This is not a huge issue because everything works. Toolbars, programs, and everything else seems fine. it's just annoying. I think there might be some correlation between the length of time my computer sleeps and waking to a black desktop background. The longer my computer sleeps the more likely to wake to black it seems? Anyway, does anyone else have this same issue or could help?
HP EliteBook 8530w
NVIDIA 331.38
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Mint 17 black desktop after suspend
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Mint 17 black desktop after suspend
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Re: Mint 17 black desktop after suspend
I also have the black desktop issue in Mint 17/Cinnamon, after nearly every suspend.
Going to system settings/backgrounds and picking a background will temporarily fix it (until the next suspend...)
Going to system settings/backgrounds and picking a background will temporarily fix it (until the next suspend...)
Re: Mint 17 black desktop after suspend
This could be a driver problem. Do you use the default Nouveau driver? I use a NVidia driver and everything works. Have you tried restarting Cinnamon? An easy solution is to install an applet "Restart Cinnamon" which puts a button on your toolbar. Two versions are available: restart-cinnamon@kolle and restart-cinnamon@bimsebasse.
Cheers, Mike
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Re: Mint 17 black desktop after suspend
You can try to disable Nemo Xrandr plugin with following commands.
First install dconf-cli package.
After disable Xrandr pluging.
Note: A similar issue was solved by the above method on Linux Mint Turkey.
First install dconf-cli package.
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sudo apt-get install dconf-cli
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dconf write /org/cinnamon/settings-daemon/plugins/xrandr/active false