Command equivalent on restarting explorer.exe in Windows

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Is there command in Ubuntu that is equivalent on restarting explorer.exe in Windows?

What's your goal, basically ? – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Jun 08 '15 at 17:06 — Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy, Jun 08 '15 at 17:06

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy · Answer 1 · 2015-06-08T17:09:45.547

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If your goal is to restart file manager , then pkill nautilus && nohup nautilus 2> /dev/null &.

If you want to restart your desktop session, sudo service lightdm restart. This command kills everything, kicks you back to login screen. Effectively restarts your graphical session

edited Jun 08 '15 at 17:09

answered Jun 08 '15 at 16:58

Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy

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But the latter kills all the app, right? – tigerjack Jun 08 '15 at 17:05
@tigerjack89 later kills everything, kicks you back to login screen. Effectivelly restarts your desktop session – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Jun 08 '15 at 17:05
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yep, this is my point. I think you should add this to your answer because it is very different from killing explorer.exe in Windows. – tigerjack Jun 08 '15 at 17:07
@tigerjack89 I've already mentioned that it restarts desktop session in my answer, but I guess I can add that bitt,too – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Jun 08 '15 at 17:08
sudo service lightdm restart is probably equivalent to ctrl + alt + backspace in most distros – Davide Jun 08 '15 at 17:26
@Davide we're talking about Windows equivalent, tho – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Jun 08 '15 at 17:38
@Serg I know. I just thought it was worth mentioning it, as it's a standard way to restart X. However, I remember having to change something in ubuntu for it to work... – Davide Jun 09 '15 at 08:48

Command equivalent on restarting explorer.exe in Windows

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