How do I just restart the nautilus after adding a nautilus script without having to log out.
4 Answers
To restart nautilus...
First, type the following in your terminal to quit nautilus:
nautilus -q
orkillall nautilus
Then, open nautilus via Unity menu (press the Super key) or using the run command (Alt + F2).
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2Is there a way to do this without starting a nautilus window? As in it would be running and display a desktop without bringing it's own window.– BufkeMay 10, 2012 at 20:15
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2if nautilus crashes, which happens quite easily in 12.04, then your desktop items are gone. This does not help to bring them back permanently. As soon as you close nautilus, the desktop is empty once more.– AnthonJul 10, 2012 at 22:28
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Open terminal by Ctrl+Alt+T and try this:
$ nautilus -q && nautilus &
get it done without switching from the terminal.
I had a GTK error at one point and nautilus -q did not work. So instead of asking nicely I went a more ridiculous route to kill nautilus and restart.
$ ps -aux | grep nautilus
This will list all processes that have nautilus in description. You should get something like this.
carlos 2070 0.1 0.9 1608528 77500 ? Sl 08:56 0:40 nautilus -n
carlos 29272 0.0 0.0 16744 1004 pts/1 S+ 16:38 0:00 grep --color=auto nautilus
Look for the one with that says nautilus and grab the 4 digit code. Once you have that written down you can kill the process.
$ sudo kill 2070
Nautilus should die and restart automatically. Again I just used this because I had a wierd GTK error when I tried running nautilus -q.
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FYI, what you did is the same as using
killall nautilus
from the accepted answer. It finds all processes with the executable named "nautilus" and kills them. Helpful when you know the process's executable name. But if you're ever unsure, you should do aps -aux | grep <executable>
to make sure that you will kill the right process.– CliffAug 26, 2019 at 6:02 -
Am I confused or did you simply kill a
grep
process that was already done? Didn't you want to kill process 2070? And you own the process so you don't need sudo– JimLohseDec 18, 2019 at 17:37 -
1@JimLohse yes. Blast. Thank you for spotting that error. I just updated my comment. Dec 19, 2019 at 18:21