I am new to xubuntu, somtimes my xfce desktop crashes, and I can only use tty1 from command line.
I want to know how can I restart my xfce in tty7 from tty1?
I've googled it, but didn't found the solution. Thanks.
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Try killing user by
pkill -KILL -u yourusername
This will bring you back to login screen though.
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Sometimes lose current windows is not a choice :X, u can do same restarting ldm service ( or the login manager you have ). Killing every process of a user it's the last option, because you may be working on tty1 and you will kill it too. Login manager (wich is x based) would not close other sessions. – erm3nda Oct 23 '15 at 4:20
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For me startxfce4 didn't work, but pkill did.
You could try the following command:
xfwm4 --replace
It restarts the windows manager.
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1Yeah. This is, first try to reload window manager, if don't work try restarting login service, and in the worst of cases, kill your user then start again your work :) – erm3nda Oct 23 '15 at 4:20
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You can try startxfce4.
As this site says:
Restart XFCE4 : from the command line, you would better use "startxfce4" to bypass stupid distribution X startup scripts that can drive you crazy, really.
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1That's the start XFCE4, not to to restart it. When I ran
startxfce4I got these messages: /usr/bin/startxfce4: X server already running on display :0.0 xfce4-session: Another session manager is already running – Enkouyami Jul 4 '15 at 21:43 -
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@Enkouyami well, when something crashes Restart = Start. You got the message
already runningbecause yourxfce4was not crashed ;)—this is a linguistic issue. Anyway, this answer fits the question. :) – loved.by.Jesus Aug 27 at 10:23
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pkill worked but seemed a little extreme to me. If I had other stuff going on in other tty sessions it would kill those too.
Another solution is:
sudo restart lightdm
A great strength of Linux is that there are always multiple ways to achieve the same task.
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