On 11/06/2013 06:27 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> restarted Mint, it came up to a trinity desktop window that said to use
> CTRL-ALT-DEL to login. but CTRL-ALT-DEL did nothing.

I don't know why it's not working, but you can turn off the secure attention
key by editing (as root) /etc/trinity/kdm/kdmrc and changing UseSAK to false.

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