User:Linuxhelper/How to restart Cinnamon without losing your session

If your Cinnamon session freezes, try the following:
 * 1) Go to a different tty, for example, press Ctrl+Alt+F2 to go to tty2.
 * 2) Type the   command to list active sessions. Notice the content of the "FROM" column, possibly ":0".
 * 3) Type

The  part is from the "FROM" column in the prior command, the   part prevents diagnostic error messages from flooding the command line output, and the   character puts the process in background.

Hopefully I could help.