Comment 15 for bug 781402

Hi all,

I too have this exact same problem after waking from Screensaver on 11.04 (Natty) on an old Dell Optiplex GX620 (P4 HT).

Until this issue is resolved a quicker and easier way of restarting X-Windows (rather than logging into the console) is to re-enable the old CTRL-ALT-Backspace keyboard combination. I discovered this by following Kerry Kobashi's instructions here:

http://www.kerryonworld.com/computers/how-to-restart-x-server-in-ubuntu

Unfortunately this will also log you off but it's better than pulling the plug and doing a cold reboot. :-/

Best of luck people.