Restart shell without reboot?

[Sam Poison Oak]

Using the final Mint12KDE version! Is there any way like a shortcut or command I could execute for restarting the shell(plasma-desktop) without rebooting or losing the active processes?
Something like the alt+F2+r+enter thing on gnome?
Already readed the online guides on KDE.org and searched across the forum and can't find any clue about this useful feature that appears to don't exist :/

[Knusperkeks]

STRG+ALT+Backspace

[Zalbor]

STRG+ALT+Backspace

I assume you mean CTRL and not STRG? In that case, it's not the same at all. This will restart the X server, while the "r" command in GNOME only restarts GNOME itself and leaves your programs running.

[Knusperkeks]

sudo /etc/init.d/kdm restart

and yes i meant CTRL-ALT-Backspace...STRG is CTRL its the german keyname...sorry

[Sam Poison Oak]

that command ended the session and the workspace too -_-
too bad!! I want something like the gnome r command on KDE!

[braingateway]

????

[braingateway]

Using the final Mint12KDE version! Is there any way like a shortcut or command I could execute for restarting the shell(plasma-desktop) without rebooting or losing the active processes?
Something like the alt+F2+r+enter thing on gnome?
Already readed the online guides on KDE.org and searched across the forum and can't find any clue about this useful feature that appears to don't exist :/

First, I think there is no way to restart entire KDE or X without relogin.
Then I think what u wanna do is just reload the plasma-desktop.
Here is the classic way:
Alt-F2
then
kill plasma-desktop (kill the process)
then
plasma-desktop (restart the process)

More neat way is to use kquitapp:
kquitapp plasma-desktop
plasma-desktop
will do it

[BostonPeng]

More neat way is to use kquitapp:
kquitapp plasma-desktop
plasma-desktop
will do it

I'll have to remember this tomorrow. I leave my laptop on overnight and when I get back to it in the am I notice that my RAM usage gauge it so high I have to do a reboot to clear it out. And checking my System Activity monitor tells me it's all being used by the plasma desktop. For those who are curious I'll post whether or not it worked when I try it.

[BostonPeng]

This seems to have helped me. My System Viewer plasmoid showed a ton of memory being used so I opened a konsole and ran these commands and while my plasmoid doesn't show much change I am finding my system running along nicely with thy following info revealed in Yakuake

$ uptime
12:46:37 up 21:38, 3 users, load average: 0.06, 0.19, 0.27

I'm not sure why there are three users since I'm the only one who uses the laptop but I like the 21 hour uptrime. I owe you a brew, braingateway. Now to throw the lines into a batch file I can run easily without needing to tie up a konsole window.

[Sam Poison Oak]

Then I think what u wanna do is just reload the plasma-desktop.
Here is the classic way:
Alt-F2
then
kill plasma-desktop (kill the process)
then
plasma-desktop (restart the process)

Hope that helps after applying updates!
Does that close my running apps?

[BostonPeng]

It doesn't on my system, Sam.

[ibm450]

This seems to have helped me. My System Viewer plasmoid showed a ton of memory being used so I opened a konsole and ran these commands and while my plasmoid doesn't show much change I am finding my system running along nicely with thy following info revealed in Yakuake

$ uptime
12:46:37 up 21:38, 3 users, load average: 0.06, 0.19, 0.27

I'm not sure why there are three users since I'm the only one who uses the laptop but I like the 21 hour uptrime. I owe you a brew, braingateway. Now to throw the lines into a batch file I can run easily without needing to tie up a konsole window.

strange, mine also shows more then one user....mine is stating two users logged in??

[BostonPeng]

strange, mine also shows more then one user....mine is stating two users logged in??

I'm guessing one may be root from any system-level processes. If I'm right there's nothing to be concerned about.

@all:
Does anyone else have any info on this situation?