Comments on: Reload the Gnome or KDE Panels Without Restarting (Linux)

By: guest

guest — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:16:57 +0000

KDE 3.5: dcop klauncher klauncher autoStart

and the panel magically reappears!

By: Mohan

Mohan — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:57:03 +0000

Awesome tip, thanks man!

By: Denis Howe

Denis Howe — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:36:56 +0000

Killing the panel works but it’s messy. For example, it leaves pidgin’s buddy list open and re-orders all the tasks on the task bar. I do it to get a launcher on the panel to show the new comment text I’ve just written to ~/.gnome2/panel2.d/default/launchers/wallpaper.pl.desktop. (Which launches my Perl program for rotating desktop wallpaper).

By: Bill McGonigle

Bill McGonigle — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:42:58 +0000

I’ve got KDE 4.2 here – I tried some of the above, which lead me to try:

killall plasma && plasma

and that seems to do the trick. Thanks!

By: Rob Russell

Rob Russell — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:52:52 +0000

Thanks for the tip. I created a shortcut to restart the panels. It’s happening on someone else’s computer and this will make their life easier until we get to the bottom of what’s causing the crash.

By: Tsiolkovsky

Tsiolkovsky — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:13:34 +0000

To restart the Plasma desktop shel in KDE 4 you use this: kquitapp plasma && plasma

By: Jonadab

Jonadab — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:35:37 +0000

If you really want to get the whole thing down to a single command line, it might help to put a short-duration sleep statement between the two commands. Or, if you do it often, put the commands in a shell script and bind it to a hotkey

By: The Geek

The Geek — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:56:12 +0000

@Justin

You know, you really should be able to, and that’s what I originally had written. Thankfully I tested it first, because it just didn’t work for me. Kept giving me weird error messages.

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:51:03 +0000

You ought to be able to combine the two commands into one using &&, i.e. “killall kicker && kicker”. Not an earth shattering reduction in steps, but if you had to do it very often, it could add up.

By: The Geek

The Geek — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:30:42 +0000

@Grant

That’s a good point… of course restarting X will also restart any applications you have open. I usually try to avoid that since I’ve got 40 Firefox tabs open at any given point =)

@Naresh: I think I’m using Lucida Grande, but I can check.