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Restart Debian/Ubuntu Linux Gnome session without rebooting

Posted by Admin on February 1st, 2007

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If you want to quickly restart X Windows on Ubuntu or any version of linux, all you have to do is hit this key combination quickly or use the command line option
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace

or

You can use the following command from your terminal

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart

Note: Make sure that you save your work before doing this

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One Response to “Restart Debian/Ubuntu Linux Gnome session without rebooting”

  1. Carlos Says:
    June 24th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    Thanx, but on Ubuntu 9.04 it does restarts the PC, not only the session.

    Any other option on how to restart the session, or just restart the desktop.

    Thanx.

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