How do I restart Unity
I don't use Unity but given what I know of its mechanics, this should work:
unity
You'll want to stick that in a run box (Alt+F2) rather than a terminal or it'll break when you exit the terminal.
If you want to run it from a terminal use:
setsid unity
I found killall -u USR1 -r -g unity*
(optionally, with -i for interactive) to be more effective than @Andrew's answer. My only problem with this vs unity --replace
is that it will kill your session which unity --replace
doesn't do. So, reserve this for when it is severely broken.
killall -USR1 unity
will restart it in an account (USR1) where you have not changed your killall defaults.