I installed Cinnamon on my Ubuntu 12.04, and it works well, but sometimes it just freezes for no reason. I can move my mouse but can't click on anything.
So I want to restart Cinnamon from tty, like I used to do with gnome shell. How do I do that?
I tried killall cinnamon and nothing happened.
Then I tried export DISPLAY=:0.0 , cinnamon --replace and still nothing.
I guess the command cinnamon is not valid.
I don't want to restart the whole X server because then all of my windows will get closed. I just want to restart the window manager cause I believe it is causing the problem.
Best Answer
Hit Alt+F2, type r and hit enter.