Restart the Ubuntu Gnome User Interface Quickly
If you want to quickly restart X Windows on Ubuntu, Debian, or pretty much any version of linux, all you have to do is hit this key combination quickly:
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace
If you are using VMware, you’ll want to change your default VMware shortcut keys, because they will interfere.
Update: Make sure that you save your work before doing this.
The Geek is the founder of How-To Geek and a geek enthusiast. This article was written on 11/27/06 and tagged with: Ubuntu, Ubuntu Tips & Tweaks
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a command like for this ? so i set up a desktop script ?
here is the command line to do this from terminal
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart
i suggest to disable the keys combination… in case you do it by mistake and you were in middle of something..