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#1 2016-11-14 12:35:44

ams1
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Registered: 2013-12-02
Posts: 26

How to restart Frozen Wayland Gnome-shell?

As of Gnome 3.22 Gnome uses Wayland by default. It mostly works fine, but I get occasional freezes that I can't recover from. :-(

Under X it would occasionally happen, but then I could just do "DISPLAY=:0 gnome-shell --replace" and it would come back. I think "pkill -HUP gnome-shell" might have worked too, but I only just read about that.

Under Wayland there doesn't seem to be an equivalent fix, and it's currently happening quite frequently (a few times a day). The pkill trick kills the session effectively enough, as does Alt-SysRq-k, but that also means losing unsaved work and having to open up everything again. Killing gnome-shell by other means doesn't cause any variety of auto-restart either.

Is there a solution? (Besides switch back to X; I already did that, for now.)

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