PSA: GNOME Shell replace from another TTY

If your GNOME Shell went FUBAR and you can’t reach a terminal from it to issue gnome-shell --replace(apparently this is broken since 3.30), and Alt+F2 doesn’t work, you can use the following in another TTY or via SSH:


<span style="color:#323232;">killall -3 gnome-shell
</span>

That’ll be all.

jxk,

Does sending SIGQUIT behave differently than sending SIGTERM?

MondayToFriday,

According to this article, gnome-shell --replace no longer works starting with GNOME Shell 3.30.

avidamoeba, (edited )
@avidamoeba@lemmy.ca avatar

Tried it, wow, it did indeed vomit in my face.

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