Apply changes or restart Unity dash/launcher/... without reboot or logout
Press Alt+F2 type unity
and press Enter.
Unity is just a Compiz plugin, you can reload it using:
compiz --replace
Or to let you close terminal
compiz --replace & disown
To confirm, you can check:
$ file `which unity` /usr/bin/unity: Python script, ASCII text executable $ more /usr/bin/unity
Another way, light reload only the plugin (very quick)
Create the
compiz_plugin_reloader
scriptSource: iXce’s blog: Compiz plugin reloader
#!/usr/bin/env python '''Compiz plugin reloader (through compizconfig) Copyright (c) 2007 Guillaume Seguin <[email protected]> Licensed under GNU GPLv2''' import compizconfig from sys import argv, exit from time import sleep if __name__ == "__main__": if len (argv) < 2: print "Usage : %s plugin1 [plugin2 ... pluginN]" % argv[0] exit (2) plugins = argv[1:] context = compizconfig.Context (basic_metadata = True) print "Unloading " + " ".join (plugins) for plugin in plugins: if plugin not in context.Plugins: print "Warning : %s plugin not found" % plugin plugins.remove (plugin) continue context.Plugins[plugin].Enabled = False if len (plugins) == 0: print "Error : no plugin found" exit (1) context.Write () print "Waiting for settings update" sleep (2) print "Loading " + " ".join (plugins) for plugin in plugins: context.Plugins[plugin].Enabled = True context.Write ()
Fix permissions
chmod +x compiz_plugin_reloader
Run as:
./compiz_plugin_reloader unityshell