I haven’t been able to find one. Using Zorin OS which is GNOME.
There used to exist a hotkey CTRL-ALT-BKSP for restarting your current X-Session, don’t know if this still exists
Please explain why you need that in the post.
Stop fucking asking people to justify their use case, when they want something that clearly exists elsewhere.
It matters because Linux is different in everything, how drivers are loaded, what components can be restarted etc.
It may not be needed or it may, and people are throwing in random solutions while the problem is not clear
It’s a horrible kludge of a feature that fixes weird problems. That’s gonna be true regardless of OS, and regardless of which exact problems OP has.
I’m not sure that’s true in a lot of linux use cases. Linux and windows handle drivers very differently. There are a lot of graphics problems which have nothing to do with the driver, and when they do it’s usually wrong driver instead of driver acting up
Then OP will find out this isn’t something they need.
You should still answer the question, instead of questioning the question.
It is infuriating how every technical question has to be justified, as if ‘why do you want that?’ is always a relevant and wise question. Even though it’s omnipresent, effortless, and adds literally nothing by itself.
“I want to get rid of my hair, how do I shave my hair on Linux”
“Why do you want to get rid of your hair?”
'Because when I didnt have sissors before on Windows, I always shaved it to have it not annoy me"
“But now that you have sissors, why not just cut it”?
Making up a stupid analogy totally excuses the million derailed threads where someone genuinely just needs something you don’t.
Stop letting your ignorance prevent them from solving their ignorance. Answer the goddamn question, first. Feel free to snit at them - after.
Windows has fully user space graphics drivers since Vista. Linux still utilizes kernel modules and I’m not aware of plans to move everything to user space. It’s honestly pretty cool that entire graphics driver can crash under Windows and all that happens is a bit of flickering.
This is a huge advantage of Windows…
It doesn’t matter much what Linux you use. Rather what is your desktop environment? (KDE Plasma, Gnome, sway etc.)
On KDE for example there is a shortcut to restart the compositor, which might fix your issue.
But in general you might have luck “restarting” it by switching the tty. You do that by pressing CTRL + ALT + some function key between F1 and F8 (the standard gui tty number depends on the distro). Try to switch to a non gui tty and then back.
For example, on my distro I would do:
- CTRL + ALT + F1
- CTRL + ALT + F2
but on yours it might be F7 or some other.
I agree with Ctrl+Alt+F1/F2 but would add
init 3 init 5
but I learned for my case its better to reboot if my GPU is acting up the instability would eventually come back
the init command probably only works in Debian nowadays givin it’s a thing from the sysvinit era
