I have following problem, with my Mint 18.1 Cinnamon, when I plug a USB flash drive, or my phone in USB port, my desktop dies immediatly: the backgrond picture disapears, it's all black, and I can't click on anything. I have to go in my ~home/Desktop  my self. Everything else keeps working: the Menu button, Firefox etc.. and all the programs are functional. I need to restart system in order to make Desktop fonction again.Any idea how I could fix this? It never happened before, but I must have installed some Updates in Software manager which doesn't work well..
Mint desktop turns black after usb is plugged in
linux mint;desktop
Okey the answer is following: Mint 18.1 has 2 file managers, Nemo and Nautilus. When a device is plugged in, Mint uses Nautilus for navigation. Nautilus is completly buggy on my computer. In order to stop crashing my Desktop with Nautilus, I set Nemo as default file manager xdg-mime default nemo.desktop inode/directory application/x-gnome-saved-searchI also added inode/directory=nemo.desktop in     ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.listIf for whatever reason you don't want to use Nemo, you can simply disable auto-opening with Nautilus after a device is mount as specified here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/191527/disable-auto-opening-nautilus-window-after-auto-mount