Hi, I need some help This is for a home computer My desktop manager is freezing (XFCE). I can ssh into the system. But I do not know how to restart the desktop manager.
My google fu is not working. I google by "restart desktop manager fedora 24" but do not get anything remotely useful. Maybe I am not using the magic incantation words.
Thanks
On 11/01/2016 02:03 AM, Javier Perez wrote:
Hi, I need some help This is for a home computer My desktop manager is freezing (XFCE). I can ssh into the system. But I do not know how to restart the desktop manager.
My google fu is not working. I google by "restart desktop manager fedora 24" but do not get anything remotely useful. Maybe I am not using the magic incantation words.
First, you'd be wise to look at all the various logs to find out why it's freezing. I use XFCE as well and I don't have that issue.
Is it the desktop (session) manager or the display manager? The desktop manager would be something like "killall -9 xfce4-session" and it should restart. There are a number of different display managers that could be used, however (lightdm, sddm, etc.). I use "lightdm" so the command would be "killall -9 lightdm" to kill it.
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On 11/01/2016 09:20 AM, Rick Stevens wrote:
On 11/01/2016 02:03 AM, Javier Perez wrote:
Hi, I need some help This is for a home computer My desktop manager is freezing (XFCE). I can ssh into the system. But I do not know how to restart the desktop manager.
My google fu is not working. I google by "restart desktop manager fedora 24" but do not get anything remotely useful. Maybe I am not using the magic incantation words.
First, you'd be wise to look at all the various logs to find out why it's freezing. I use XFCE as well and I don't have that issue.
Is it the desktop (session) manager or the display manager? The desktop manager would be something like "killall -9 xfce4-session" and it should restart. There are a number of different display managers that could be used, however (lightdm, sddm, etc.). I use "lightdm" so the command would be "killall -9 lightdm" to kill it.
YMMV
Oh, I forgot, also "killall -9 xfdesktop" (that's the actual desktop). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - "Swap memory error: You lose your mind" - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Thanks! I'll check it out tonight.
On Nov 1, 2016 12:13, "Rick Stevens" ricks@alldigital.com wrote:
On 11/01/2016 09:20 AM, Rick Stevens wrote:
On 11/01/2016 02:03 AM, Javier Perez wrote:
Hi, I need some help This is for a home computer My desktop manager is freezing (XFCE). I can ssh into the system. But I do not know how to restart the desktop manager.
My google fu is not working. I google by "restart desktop manager fedora 24" but do not get anything remotely useful. Maybe I am not using the magic incantation words.
First, you'd be wise to look at all the various logs to find out why it's freezing. I use XFCE as well and I don't have that issue.
Is it the desktop (session) manager or the display manager? The desktop manager would be something like "killall -9 xfce4-session" and it should restart. There are a number of different display managers that could be used, however (lightdm, sddm, etc.). I use "lightdm" so the command would be "killall -9 lightdm" to kill it.
YMMV
Oh, I forgot, also "killall -9 xfdesktop" (that's the actual desktop).
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On 02/11/16 04:12, Rick Stevens wrote:
On 11/01/2016 09:20 AM, Rick Stevens wrote:
On 11/01/2016 02:03 AM, Javier Perez wrote:
Hi, I need some help This is for a home computer My desktop manager is freezing (XFCE). I can ssh into the system. But I do not know how to restart the desktop manager.
My google fu is not working. I google by "restart desktop manager fedora 24" but do not get anything remotely useful. Maybe I am not using the magic incantation words.
First, you'd be wise to look at all the various logs to find out why it's freezing. I use XFCE as well and I don't have that issue.
Is it the desktop (session) manager or the display manager? The desktop manager would be something like "killall -9 xfce4-session" and it should restart. There are a number of different display managers that could be used, however (lightdm, sddm, etc.). I use "lightdm" so the command would be "killall -9 lightdm" to kill it.
YMMV
Oh, I forgot, also "killall -9 xfdesktop" (that's the actual desktop).
Systemctl restart lightdm (if lightdm is your display manager) should kill and restart your DM. If your DM is frozen, the fact that the systemctl command will shutdown your desktop as well won't matter?
regards, Steve
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YMMV
Oh, I forgot, also "killall -9 xfdesktop" (that's the actual desktop).
Systemctl restart lightdm (if lightdm is your display manager) should kill and restart your DM. If your DM is frozen, the fact that the systemctl command will shutdown your desktop as well won't matter?
Actuallly, not it would not matter. I have had already to force a shutdown
because even sending a reboot from ssh did not work.
JP
regards, Steve
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