How to restart nautilus without logging out?

To restart nautilus...

First, type the following in your terminal to quit nautilus:

nautilus -q or killall nautilus
Then, open nautilus via Unity menu (press the Super key) or using the run command (Alt + F2).

Open terminal by Ctrl+Alt+T and try this:

$ nautilus -q && nautilus &

get it done without switching from the terminal.

I had a GTK error at one point and nautilus -q did not work. So instead of asking nicely I went a more ridiculous route to kill nautilus and restart.

$ ps -aux | grep nautilus

This will list all processes that have nautilus in description. You should get something like this.

carlos 2070 0.1 0.9 1608528 77500 ? Sl 08:56 0:40 nautilus -n

carlos 29272 0.0 0.0 16744 1004 pts/1 S+ 16:38 0:00 grep --color=auto nautilus

Look for the one with that says nautilus and grab the 4 digit code. Once you have that written down you can kill the process.

$ sudo kill 2070

Nautilus should die and restart automatically. Again I just used this because I had a wierd GTK error when I tried running nautilus -q.

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