Thursday, September 6, 2018

Restarting Cinnamon Desktop in Fedora 28+

Restarting Cinnamon Desktop in Fedora 28+

On a local system,

Ctrl + Alt + Esc can halt the current session and restart (I think).

Alt + F2, then type r and press enter.  This will open up a new work space to restart Cinnamon.

On a remote terminal,

$ pkill -HUP -f "cinnamon --replace"

This will restart Cinnamon without affecting applications. 

Due to high resource utilization caused by Cinnamon over time, you may need to also kill the cinnamon-session process as well.  On multiple installations, this has freed up most of the used system resources (CPU and Memory) consumed by the cinnamon-session process.

$ ps -A | grep cinnamon or

$ ps -A | grep cinnamon-session

Or, from within top or htop

k for kill, enter cinnamon-session PID, then 15.

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