Logging out and in again should be enough. Although that wouldn't be true where the login screen (also hosted by gnome-shell) was still running during your desktop login but these days the login screen is stopped and restarted on demand. So indeed logging out and in again should be sufficient if you were running GNOME. Or do nothing at all if you're logged into KDE (providing the login screen's gnome-shell instance is not still running).
So you're right, but it can be complicated. ** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Wishlist ** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1999833 Title: gnome-shell update should not request a reboot if it is not running To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1999833/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs