How to restart(--replace) gnome-shell Ctrl+Alt+F*

Hi,
I'm having random Gnome-shell freezes, everything seems to be working fine except for the shell itself, which seems to be completely frozen. I want to restart it using CTRL+ALT+F* and
gnome-shell --replace
or
mutter--replace
, but I get this:
Window manager error: unable to open X display.
I know from random research that I have to set the $DISPLAY env. but I don't know which display to export.
Thanks in advance.
Last edited by rAX (2011-05-29 22:40:41)

Wey wrote:Hello rAX,
Hello
in theory, its something similiar to this
export DISPLAY=:0.0
Yep, I tried this with no luck. I guess I need to get the correct display number.
However, here i had to issue gnome-shell --replace multiple times until it got accepted. And even then, it sometimes crashed completely and threw me back to the dm. An alternative could be to pkill gnome-shell, as it should get auto-respawned by the gnome-session.
edit: assuming /usr/share/applications/gnome-shell.desktop sets X-GNOME-AutoRestart=true
I tried this and it works great, I still have to issue the command while the shell is frozen, but I guess it'll work fine
Thank you.

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