Thanks! I'll check it out tonight.

On Nov 1, 2016 12:13, "Rick Stevens" <ri...@alldigital.com> wrote:

> On 11/01/2016 09:20 AM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > On 11/01/2016 02:03 AM, Javier Perez wrote:
> >> Hi, I need some help
> >> This is for a home computer
> >> My desktop manager is freezing (XFCE). I can ssh into the system.
> >> But I do not know how to restart the desktop manager.
> >>
> >> My google fu is not working. I google by "restart desktop manager fedora
> >> 24" but do not get anything remotely useful. Maybe I am not using the
> >> magic incantation words.
> >
> > First, you'd be wise to look at all the various logs to find out why
> > it's freezing. I use XFCE as well and I don't have that issue.
> >
> > Is it the desktop (session) manager or the display manager? The desktop
> > manager would be something like "killall -9 xfce4-session" and it should
> > restart. There are a number of different display managers that could
> > be used, however (lightdm, sddm, etc.). I use "lightdm" so the command
> > would be "killall -9 lightdm" to kill it.
> >
> > YMMV
>
> Oh, I forgot, also "killall -9 xfdesktop" (that's the actual desktop).
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