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xkill in terminal - Micah - 2006-10-16
Hey, I've used KDE for about three days and already tried experimenting to get used to it, as i've been a hopeless Windows user for my entire life... Shocking, I know :P
Now, anyway, my Firefox browser (like there is any other) crashed and I couldn't figure out how to kill it, so I used the "xkill" command, which worked great! However... I had Firefox minimized and thus clicked on the bottom "start-bar line" to remove it. Suddenly I was sitting there with only icons on my desktop and no startline! Firefox still running... well, sort of... ^^,
I got it back by restarting, but is there a way to "load" it again on the fly using the terminal?
Help will be very much appreciated!
On pre-hand; Thanks! (Not even sure pre-hand is a word... o.O)
xkill in terminal - anyweb - 2006-10-16
hi and welcome to the forums !
you can try restarting X which will restart KDE but not the computer
press CTRL_ALT and BACKSPACE together
cheers
anyweb
xkill in terminal - Micah - 2006-10-16
Quote:hi and welcome to the forums !Thanks, anyweb. I'll keep bothering you if more problems appear ;) ;)
you can try restarting X which will restart KDE but not the computer
press CTRL_ALT and BACKSPACE together
cheers
anyweb
Worked great, thank you! Althought, it requires me to login. I can still live with that. ;) *Bows*
I'll still appreciate it if anyone knows a command I can run to load the bottom start-bar, without having to log in again, very much like you can use "run explorer" in the "Ctrl-Alt-Delete" window (Already forgot what that window is called :)) to "reload" the windows graphical interface. :)
xkill in terminal - hybrid - 2006-10-16
This in theory will do as you say (this will kill the current taskbar & panels and reload them).
Press Alt-F2 to bring up Run Command, and enter:
Code:
killall kicker;sleep 1s;kicker &and that should restart everything.
xkill in terminal - Micah - 2006-10-19
Quote:This in theory will do as you say (this will kill the current taskbar & panels and reload them).Forgive my lack of knowledge, but wouldn't the "sleep" command restart the computer itself?
Press Alt-F2 to bring up Run Command, and enter:
Code:killall kicker;sleep 1s;kicker &
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and that should restart everything.
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xkill in terminal - anyweb - 2006-10-19
nope
the sleep command simply WAITS for X number of seconds
eg:
sleep 3s;
waits around doing nothing for 3 seconds.
cheers
anyweb
xkill in terminal - hybrid - 2006-10-19
Quote:Forgive my lack of knowledge, but wouldn't the "sleep" command restart the computer itself?
Just further to what anyweb said, the reason I put sleep in there was because without it sometimes it doesn't work as the panels haven't finished closing yet. So we close the panels, wait a second for everything to clear up, then reload them.