Running Alt + F2 and then "r" to restart GNOME Shell helps speed up everything again, because AFAIK it restarts gnome-settings-daemon, but after that it still uses relatively much more RAM than after a reboot.
Running Alt + F2 and then "r" to restart GNOME Shell helps speed up everything again, because AFAIK it restarts gnome-settings- daemon, but after that it still uses relatively much more RAM than after a reboot.