Re: How do I restart the Desktop Manager under Fedora 24

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Thanks! I'll check it out tonight.


On Nov 1, 2016 12:13, "Rick Stevens" <ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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