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Riyaz Mohammed Ibrahim
Asked: 2011-01-05 02:22:39 +0800 CST

How to restart nautilus without logging out?

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How do I just restart the nautilus after adding a nautilus script without having to log out.

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  1. Best Answer

    To restart nautilus...

    • First, type the following in your terminal to quit nautilus:

      nautilus -q or killall nautilus

    • Then, open nautilus via Unity menu (press the Super key) or using the run command (Alt + F2).

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  2. Open terminal by Ctrl+Alt+T and try this:

    $ nautilus -q && nautilus &

    get it done without switching from the terminal.

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  3. I had a GTK error at one point and nautilus -q did not work. So instead of asking nicely I went a more ridiculous route to kill nautilus and restart.

    $ ps -aux | grep nautilus

    This will list all processes that have nautilus in description. You should get something like this.

    carlos 2070 0.1 0.9 1608528 77500 ? Sl 08:56 0:40 nautilus -n

    carlos 29272 0.0 0.0 16744 1004 pts/1 S+ 16:38 0:00 grep --color=auto nautilus

    Look for the one with that says nautilus and grab the 4 digit code. Once you have that written down you can kill the process.

    $ sudo kill 2070

    Nautilus should die and restart automatically. Again I just used this because I had a wierd GTK error when I tried running nautilus -q.

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  4. Another option without terminal is by closing "Nautilus" from "System Monitor" .

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