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If that's the login or lock screen, Cinnamon won't be handling them.
As for restarting Cinnamon, Alt+F2, r, Enter is the mild restart. There's also a deeper restart accessible through Melange, Cinammon's debugger.
By default, it's bound to Meta+L and in its bottom right drop-down, there is an option to Restart Cinnamon.
What's the difference? For one it definitely clears up zombie child processes that Cinnamon might be ignoring. (It might have also ironed out refresh rate issues and screen-tearing that the milder restart didn't help with, but my setup has changed a bit since then.)
Always worth a try if the first one doesn't seem to sort a problem out. Definitely worth it when the next two options are log out and back in, or reboot.
(Just be careful when clicking because the next menu option is "Crash Cinnamon".)