Re: Restarting gnome-shell

[Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com>]

On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 11:27 +0530, Jaimon Jose wrote:
> Is there a way I can restart or send a signal to restart gnome-shell
> from a terminal?.  I noticed that my gnome-shell freezes or crashes at
> times (tried to debug a little bit attaching gdb to gnome-shell. But,
> that didn't reveal much) and I don't have a way to restart gome-shell
> without restarting my Xsession. (Ctrl+Alt+Bkspc).  Alt+F2+r doesn't work
> as gnome-shell itself is unresponsive.  It will be convenient if I can
> switch to a console (Ctrl+Alt+F1) and restart or send a signal to 
> gnome-shell to restart.

Just kill the gnome-shell process: 'killall gnome-shell' is an easy way.
It will auto-respawn.
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