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How to restart X Window Server from command line and be able to login again afterwards?
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This old Q&A: How to restart GNOME Shell from command line?6 may have the answers for you.
Initially these used to work for people:
- The easiest way is to Alt+F2 and type
rthen ↵. - The command to replace the gnome-shell would be
gnome-shell --replace.
Now days this seems to be the only solution:
- You can also do a
killall -3 gnome-shell.
Note: This Q&A focuses on restarting gnome display manager without loosing all work and going back to Login screen.
What does Alt+F2 do?
From: 13 Keyboard Shortcut Every Ubuntu 18.04 User Should Know
10. Alt+F2: Run console
This is for power users. If you want to run a quick command, instead
of opening a terminal and running the command there, you can use
Alt+F2 to run the console.