Comments on: If Plasma dies, here’s what to do

By: nick

nick — Mon, 17 May 2010 18:22:37 +0000

I’ve updated the post to mention “plasma-desktop”. Thanks for pointing that out, avocadohead, and also for the new URL to your post.

By: avocadohead

avocadohead — Mon, 17 May 2010 16:22:31 +0000

plasma-desktop has replaced plasma in KDE>=4.3 (distro-independent). As you were so kind to refer to our blog – we had to migrate to a more PC URL, so the new post address would be: http://eumenidae.blogspot.com/2008/12/kill-and-restart-plasma.html

By: nick

nick — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:05:54 +0000

Thanks for the alternative solution, mate.

I’m guessing that you ran kbuildsycoca before kquitapp.

Another tool that you could use is pkill. It’d negate the need to search for plasma-desktop’s PID. Eg: pkill -TERM plasma-desktop

By: A

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 04:10:03 +0000

I use Ubuntu and I would have to replace “plasma” with “plasma-desktop”. However, I still get the problem you are mentioning: kquitapp plasma or kquitapp plasma-desktop don’t do the trick.

Instead, I used

ps xa | grep plasma

to get the PID of the running plasma-desktop instance, I stopped it with

kill -15 $pid

and restarted plasma-desktop with

kstart plasma-desktop

Hope this helps.