Another Fedora 16 + Gnome 3.2 question!?

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 01/05/2012 01:53 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 11:02 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> On 01/05/2012 10:16 AM, Alan Evans wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Olav Vitters wrote:
>>>
>>>>> And what, pray tell, does 'r' do?
>>>> restart gnome-shell (keeps existing applications; state is not perfectly
>>>> preserved). Quicker than rebooting the entire machine just to see the
>>>> changes you made to gnome-shell.
>>> A *one* *letter* command to restart the shell?!? That seems like a
>>> horrible mis-feature, like something I might key in accidentally.
>>>
>>> Did developers really think that restarting GNOME-shell would be so
>>> common that it justified a single char shortcut?
>> Truly frightening.  BOth ways.
>>
> On F15:
>
>          $ r
>          bash: r: command not found...
>          Similar command is: 'R'
>
>          $ which r
>          /usr/bin/which: no r in
>          (/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/lib64/ccache:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/bin:/home/mjs/bin)
>
>          $ whereis r
>          r:
>
> It does seem rather unlikely.

I did it and it worked.  'r' restarted gnome 3 and 'fixed' a couple 
issues.  Maybe it only works within the <ALt-F2> command environment and 
not from a terminal shell?