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Restart Xorg

Sometimes my Mint 17 workstation lock screen freeze's preventing me from logging in. Restarting Xorg fixes it.

Ctrl+Alt+Backspace (restart xorg)

This will kill all applications and launch a new instance of the desktop.

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