22/12/2008

Kill and restart plasma

Though pretty slick and usable by now, KDE4 is not exactly stable all the time, especially plasma.
ToDo after a desktop crash (found here) - if you are lucky enough to still have a shell:
kbuildsycoca4
kquitapp plasma-desktop
kstart plasma-desktop (see comment by Casian, thanks!)
I added #!/bin/bash in front and copied the script to /usr/bin to have it at the ready. It's cleaner that just killall plasma-desktop & plasma-desktop, because the system configuration cache is rebuilt first and KDE handles quit and start.

For pre-KDE 4.3 users:
plasma is now plasma-desktop, so, in the code above change plasma-desktop to plasma.

10 comments:

  1. Anonymous6 January 2009 at 09:44

    Thanks. It helped.

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  2. Anonymous25 March 2009 at 08:12

    could also help if you added >/dev/null 2>&1 after the plasma line so you don't have to see any output from plasma in that shell.. as such:
    plasma >/dev/null 2>&1

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  3. Anonymous11 May 2009 at 12:18

    Thanks, i needed to restart plasma after running a xrandr script that changed the dpi and the fonts were too big

    i needed to replace the "plasma" line with "kstart plasma"

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  4. Jadi15 July 2009 at 09:56

    I'm an ubuntu user and have to replace "plasma" with "plasma-desktop"

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  5. avocadohead15 July 2009 at 10:15

    Then you are probably on KDE4.3 (see the post), it's no fault of (K)Ubuntu :-)

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  6. robfelty19 October 2009 at 19:56

    I found that I needed to put a 'sleep 2' in between the kill and the start. Otherwise it would not start back up.

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  7. Unknown30 December 2009 at 07:52

    Thanks a lot!

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  8. Nick19 January 2010 at 05:32

    Thanks for writing that up, mate. It solved my problem, which I explained on my blog:
    http://cretaceouslabs.com/blog/2010/01/if-plasma-dies-heres-what-to-do/

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  9. Kadai19 February 2010 at 11:23

    Wow, this hint worked for me to restart plasma.

    I wonder if someone else have happened also to lost the Panel on KDE SC 4.4 final... it is not a critical thing, but is ultra annoying if you use the panel a lot.

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  10. Anonymous3 November 2010 at 19:55

    wow, that helped me a lot. Thanks!

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