Ubuntu
mutter package

  1. Bug #1181666
  2. Comment #61

Comment 61 for bug 1181666

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jMyles (justin-justinholmes) wrote :

Ahh, finally I have discovered a workaround. This command, executed in a TTY (which I can access with ctrl-alt-F5 or similar), seems to gently restart gnome-shell and give me everything back with my applications all still running:

dbus-send --type=method_call --print-reply --dest=org.gnome.Shell /org/gnome/Shell org.gnome.Shell.Eval string:'global.reexec_self()'