How to Restart a Frozen Desktop in Linux

If your Linux box freezes and simply won't yield to any other key-commands, you should definitely try one particular key sequence before a hard reboot. In most distros pressing Ctrl + Alt + Backspace kills the X11 (graphic) interface and restarts it.

How do you unfreeze a Linux computer?
What does Ctrl Alt F2 do in Linux?
How do I refresh my desktop in Linux?
How do I restart Ubuntu when it freezes?
Why does Linux freeze up?
What should I do when Ubuntu freezes?
What is Alt F4?
What does Ctrl Alt F7 do?
What is Ctrl F11?
How do I restart Xfce desktop?
How do you restart Lxpanel?
How do I restart my mate panel?

How do you unfreeze a Linux computer?

Linux gets frozen, what do you do?

Ctrl + Alt + PrtSc (SysRq) + reisub. Just to make it clear. You need to press and hold Ctrl, Alt and PrtSc(SysRq) buttons, and while holding them, you need to press r, e, i, s, u, b. ...
Okay, but what this REISUB means? R: Switch the keyboard from raw mode to XLATE mode. ...
Ctrl + Alt + PrtSc (SysRq) + reisuo. Follow @jovica.

What does Ctrl Alt F2 do in Linux?

Press Ctrl+Alt+F2 to switch to a terminal window.

How do I refresh my desktop in Linux?

Just hold down Ctrl + Alt + Esc and the desktop will be refreshed. Keep in mind that this is exclusive to Cinnamon (e.g. on KDE, it lets you kill an application). Your desktop will blank out for a moment, then refresh itself. It also hopefully means any problems before it will go away.

How do I restart Ubuntu when it freezes?

First, try Ctrl + Alt + F1 . That should bring you to a virtual console, as ixtmixilix said. Once you're in a virtual console, Ctrl + Alt + Delete will shut down and reboot the machine. If that technique doesn't work, there's always Alt + SysRq + R E I S U B .

Why does Linux freeze up?

Some of the common causes that cause freezing/hanging in Linux are either software or hardware related issues. They include; system resources exhaustion, application compatibility issues, under-performing hardware, slow networks, device/application configurations, and long-running un-interruptable computations.

What should I do when Ubuntu freezes?

go do the Ctrl + Alt + F1. run pm-suspend (will suspend the machine) start the machine; you should get the machine back to the state before the screen freezes (at least for me it did)

What is Alt F4?

2 Answers. Alt-F4 is the windows command to close an application. The application itself has the ability to execute code when ALT-F4 is pressed. You should know that alt-f4 will never terminate an application while being in a read/write sequence unless the application itself knows it is safe to abort.

What does Ctrl Alt F7 do?

If you want to get back to the graphical interface, press Ctrl+Alt+F7. You can also switch between consoles by holding the Alt key and pressing either the left or the right cursor key to move down or up a console, such as tty1 to tty2.

What is Ctrl F11?

F11. F11: Jump to the next field in your document. Shift+F11: Jump to the previous field in your document. Ctrl+F11: Lock a field so it cannot be edited. ... Alt+Shift+F11: Start the Microsoft Script Editor.

How do I restart Xfce desktop?

Sadly, there's no built-in way for XFCE users to click a button so that the panel will restart, and there's no secret reset function built-in like there is in Gnome Shell. Instead, users looking to fix a non-responsive XFCE4 panel must force-quit it and re-launch it.

How do you restart Lxpanel?

Re: How I refresh lxpanel

I believe it has something to do with an overflow when the TaskBar has too many icons to display, but this is unconfirmed. As daniel said, the easiest solution is the RestartPanel command, i.e, [Alt+F2] lxpanelctl restart.

How do I restart my mate panel?

Re: Restart the desktop in Mate

Ctrl+Alt+F7 (or F8 for older installations) will return you to your GUI desktop. F5 should refresh your lost desktop. If not, Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, Backspace will return you to the GUI login screen where the desktop will correct itself after login.