I installed Cinnamon on my Ubuntu 12.04, and it works well, but sometimes it just freezes for no reason. I can move my mouse but can’t click on anything. So I want to restart Cinnamon from tty, like I used to do with gnome shell. How do I do that? I tried Then I tried I guess the command |
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Hit Alt+F2, type r and hit enter. |
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This happens to me a lot, too, and this thread is one of the top results when googling for “restart cinnamon”. Unfortunately, the instructions don’t work for me (only because the display number is wrong!). For future visitors, here’s what I do that always helps me.
This always works for me, and I don’t lose open windows. Also, I keep these instructions in a file called restartcinnamon, which is just a text file. I keep the file in my Dropbox folder, so no matter what machine I am on I can just type |
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The easiest sulution would be:
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This will take care to send the HUP signal to a process that matches the pattern, “cinnamon –replace”. The signal HUP (SIGHUP) tells the process to “Hang Up”. |
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When you kill cinnamon, check if it hasn’t stopped writing
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The following combination of the above comments worked for me:
Net result: this restarted cinnamon in my terminal (tty8) without losing my windows. |
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you can restart cinnamon by :- 1) pressing Alt+F2 and type r 2) 3) in TTY use command : |
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try this
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Try to “soft-restart” cinnamon by |
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I tried Ctrl+Alt+Backspace (Kill x server), That seemed to work for me. (However I had started a second cinnamon session ( |
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You can try the |
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