How to restart icewm from the command line?

If you want IceWM to re-read its configuration, send it a SIGHUP signal:

killall -SIGHUP icewm

See the Configuration chapter in the IceWM Manual.

key "Alt+Ctrl+k" icewm --restart

according to icewm and icewm-keys manpages for 1.4.2.

I've been using

icewm --replace

Less chance of making some dumb mistake while using 'kill'.

See https://askubuntu.com/a/159540/11878 Though it's on the Ubuntu SE site, there's nothing distro-specific about the answer.

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