On Mon, May 12 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 7:20 PM, <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: > [...] >> I did >> emerge --changed-use --update --keep-going world >> and >> emerge --depclean --ask --ignore-default-opts >> >> The problem remains (after a reboot). >> Specifically, gdm/gnome-shell puts up the screensaver giving the time in >> big characters and I can't get rid of it using the mouse or keyboard. >> I also tried >> /etc/init.d/gdm restart >> with no improvement. > > If you are on systemd, that does nothing. You want systemctl restart > gdm.service.
This (old) system is still openRC/grub1. When I get the present problem solved, I will be going to grub2/systemd. allan
