Alternatives to restart nautilus, besides killall and -q?

Question

Nautilus froze and I had to terminate it using

killall nautilus

however now everytime I open nautilus it does not work properly: It seems to respond to the mouse (as clicking on [x] closes the window) but the interface does not update, so any click on any folder does not show its contents. I can't even resize the nautilus window, it just acts as if it is completely frozen.

The only two options (besides restarting the computer) are

nautilus -q
killall nautilus

but neither helps, as this happens everytime I open nautilus.

What else can I try to get it to work?

You can restart GNOME by pressing Alt+F2 then r {reference](https://www.linuxuprising.com/2020/07/how-to-restart-gnome-shell-from-command.html) — graham, Jan 23 '21 at 18:07
@24601 is it necessary to restart GNOME though? Everything is working fine besides nautilus — LHM, Jan 23 '21 at 18:14
@24601 worked perfectly, if you submit it as an answer I can accept it — LHM, Jan 23 '21 at 19:01

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 23 '21 at 20:00

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You can restart GNOME by pressing AltF2 then r.

Nautilus is the default file manager for GNOME.

reference

answered Jan 23 '21 at 20:00

graham

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Alternatives to restart nautilus, besides killall and -q?

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