PSA: GNOME Shell replace from another TTY

Linux@lemmy.ml – 19 points – 8 months ago

If your GNOME Shell went FUBAR and you can't reach a terminal from it to issue ~~gnome-shell --replace~~(apparently this is broken since 3.30), and Alt+F2 doesn't work, you can use the following in another TTY or via SSH:

killall -3 gnome-shell

That'll be all.

According to this article, gnome-shell --replace no longer works starting with GNOME Shell 3.30.

Tried it, wow, it did indeed vomit in my face.

Does sending SIGQUIT behave differently than sending SIGTERM?