How do I restart the Desktop Manager under Fedora 24

[Javier Perez]

Hi, I need some help
This is for a home computer
My desktop manager is freezing (XFCE). I can ssh into the system.
But I do not know how to restart the desktop manager.

My google fu is not working. I google by "restart desktop manager fedora
24" but do not get anything remotely useful. Maybe I am not using the magic
incantation words.

Thanks

[Rick Stevens]

On 11/01/2016 02:03 AM, Javier Perez wrote:
> Hi, I need some help
> This is for a home computer
> My desktop manager is freezing (XFCE). I can ssh into the system.
> But I do not know how to restart the desktop manager.
>
> My google fu is not working. I google by "restart desktop manager fedora
> 24" but do not get anything remotely useful. Maybe I am not using the
> magic incantation words.

First, you'd be wise to look at all the various logs to find out why
it's freezing. I use XFCE as well and I don't have that issue.

Is it the desktop (session) manager or the display manager? The desktop
manager would be something like "killall -9 xfce4-session" and it should
restart. There are a number of different display managers that could
be used, however (lightdm, sddm, etc.). I use "lightdm" so the command
would be "killall -9 lightdm" to kill it.

YMMV
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[Rick Stevens]

On 11/01/2016 09:20 AM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 11/01/2016 02:03 AM, Javier Perez wrote:
> > Hi, I need some help
> > This is for a home computer
> > My desktop manager is freezing (XFCE). I can ssh into the system.
> > But I do not know how to restart the desktop manager.
> >
> > My google fu is not working. I google by "restart desktop manager fedora
> > 24" but do not get anything remotely useful. Maybe I am not using the
> > magic incantation words.
>
> First, you'd be wise to look at all the various logs to find out why
> it's freezing. I use XFCE as well and I don't have that issue.
>
> Is it the desktop (session) manager or the display manager? The desktop
> manager would be something like "killall -9 xfce4-session" and it should
> restart. There are a number of different display managers that could
> be used, however (lightdm, sddm, etc.). I use "lightdm" so the command
> would be "killall -9 lightdm" to kill it.
>
> YMMV

Oh, I forgot, also "killall -9 xfdesktop" (that's the actual desktop).
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[Javier Perez]

Thanks! I'll check it out tonight.

On Nov 1, 2016 12:13, "Rick Stevens"  wrote:
> On 11/01/2016 09:20 AM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > On 11/01/2016 02:03 AM, Javier Perez wrote:
> > > Hi, I need some help
> > > This is for a home computer
> > > My desktop manager is freezing (XFCE). I can ssh into the system.
> > > But I do not know how to restart the desktop manager.
> > >
> > > My google fu is not working. I google by "restart desktop manager fedora
> > > 24" but do not get anything remotely useful. Maybe I am not using the
> > > magic incantation words.
> >
> > First, you'd be wise to look at all the various logs to find out why
> > it's freezing. I use XFCE as well and I don't have that issue.
> >
> > Is it the desktop (session) manager or the display manager? The desktop
> > manager would be something like "killall -9 xfce4-session" and it should
> > restart. There are a number of different display managers that could
> > be used, however (lightdm, sddm, etc.). I use "lightdm" so the command
> > would be "killall -9 lightdm" to kill it.
> >
> > YMMV
> Oh, I forgot, also "killall -9 xfdesktop" (that's the actual desktop).
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[Stephen Morris]

On 02/11/16 04:12, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 11/01/2016 09:20 AM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > On 11/01/2016 02:03 AM, Javier Perez wrote:
> > > Hi, I need some help
> > > This is for a home computer
> > > My desktop manager is freezing (XFCE). I can ssh into the system.
> > > But I do not know how to restart the desktop manager.
> > >
> > > My google fu is not working. I google by "restart desktop manager fedora
> > > 24" but do not get anything remotely useful. Maybe I am not using the
> > > magic incantation words.
> >
> > First, you'd be wise to look at all the various logs to find out why
> > it's freezing. I use XFCE as well and I don't have that issue.
> >
> > Is it the desktop (session) manager or the display manager? The desktop
> > manager would be something like "killall -9 xfce4-session" and it should
> > restart. There are a number of different display managers that could
> > be used, however (lightdm, sddm, etc.). I use "lightdm" so the command
> > would be "killall -9 lightdm" to kill it.
> >
> > YMMV
>
> Oh, I forgot, also "killall -9 xfdesktop" (that's the actual desktop).

Systemctl restart lightdm (if lightdm is your display manager) should 
kill and restart your DM. If your DM is frozen, the fact that the 
systemctl command will shutdown your desktop as well won't matter?

regards,
Steve
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[Javier Perez]

YMMV
> > >
> >
> > Oh, I forgot, also "killall -9 xfdesktop" (that's the actual desktop).
>
> Systemctl restart lightdm (if lightdm is your display manager) should kill
> and restart your DM. If your DM is frozen, the fact that the systemctl
> command will shutdown your desktop as well won't matter?
>
> Actuallly, not it would not matter. I have had already to force a shutdown

because even sending a reboot from ssh did not work.

JP
> regards,
> Steve
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