Another Fedora 16 + Gnome 3.2 question!?

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 14:37 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: 
> 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?
> 

Ah, yes, from http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/CheatSheet:

        Developer tools
        
        Looking Glass is GNOME Shell's integrated inspector tool and
        JavaScript console useful for debugging. It can be run by typing
        'lg' in the Alt+F2 prompt and can then be exited by pressing
        Esc. More details are here.
        
        Typing 'r' or 'restart' in the Alt+F2 prompt will restart GNOME
        Shell. This is useful when you are make changes to the GNOME
        Shell code while working within the GNOME Shell. You don't need
        to compile anything if you only changed JavaScript code, but you
        need to run compilation as you would normally do for C code
        before restarting. 

        Typing 'rt' in the Alt+F2 prompt will reload the GNOME Shell
        theme. This is useful when you are a theme designer and want to
        test changes in your theme without restarting the whole shell.
        The theme file is share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome-shell.css. 

        Typing 'debugexit' in the Alt+F2 prompt will quit GNOME Shell.
        This is generally only useful when you are running a development
        version of GNOME Shell which you started from the command line;
        in a normal GNOME 3 session, gnome-session will just restart
        GNOME Shell if you exit it. 

But it does seem a bit annoying to have restarting as a side effect of a
stray 'r' in Console 2.  I suppose if you want a console, using Console
3 would get around the issue.

> 
> 

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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Mathematical Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu