How do I restart the plasma shell in KDE5?

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I want to restart my plasma desktop/shell without rebooting my machine and was looking for a way to do so. Is there some konsole command or something that would do just that?

score 33 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 14 '15 at 03:29

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So I think I found an answer. Modifing the KDE 4 command from humbug.in like so:

kbuildsycoca5 && kquitapp5 plasmashell && kstart5 plasmashell

edited Oct 14 '15 at 03:29

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answered Jun 28 '15 at 20:07

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The kbuildsycoca5 portion is unnecessary, the simplest way to do it is using kquitapp5 for Plasma 5. http://askubuntu.com/a/663702/72652 (best done in KRunner rather than in a terminal) – Michael Tunnell Aug 30 '16 at 16:47
`pkill plasmashell && kstart5 plasmashell` works – alchemy Feb 22 '22 at 21:53

score 21 · Answer 2 · 2017-03-04T11:37:46.990

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Kill plasmashell and start it in the background.

killall plasmashell
plasmashell > /dev/null 2>&1 & disown

edited Mar 04 '17 at 11:37

answered Jan 12 '16 at 19:29

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This is fine as long as you don't mind `plasmashell` spewing a bunch of logging information to your terminal. You also won't be able to close the terminal, or else the plasma shell will be killed. Better to use `kstart5 plasmashell` as someone else suggested. – Psychonaut Mar 03 '17 at 18:51
@Psychonaut While `kstart5` would be the more "correct" solution, plasmashell would not be killed as a result of closing the terminal as we start it in the background. – Mar 04 '17 at 07:07
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Putting the process in the background has no effect unless you also disown it. It will be killed along with its parent terminal. – Psychonaut Mar 04 '17 at 10:46
@Psychonaut Ah, right, of course. I'll edit the answer. – Mar 04 '17 at 11:37
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`sh: disown: not found` but the line had the required effect; I can then exit from all Konsole windows and `plasmashell` continues to run. `FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #0 r320869: Mon Jul 10 13:57:55 UTC 2017 root@releng3.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC` – Graham Perrin Aug 28 '17 at 18:24

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 27 '18 at 00:59

I'm having trouble with KDE right now. Sometimes it boots in a black screen, no nothing.

But if you type ALT+F2 and open up a konsole, you can see KDE is just running fine without plasmashell. No plasmashell in the process table, no need to kill it. In my case, just typing:

kstart5 plasmashell

will solve the case.

Also, no need to tell it to go on background (or disown it), because it will do just that anyway. You can close the konsole and it will keep running just fine.

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 30 '23 at 11:27

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For Plasma 5.27+

plasmashell --replace & disown

Now you can close konsole.

answered Mar 30 '23 at 11:27

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stollr · Answer 5 · 2023-04-06T21:27:00.673

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I am running plasmashell 5.26.4 and the easiest way to restart it is

plasmashell --replace &

edited Apr 06 '23 at 21:27

answered Dec 19 '22 at 07:40

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This is the best solution for recent systems. Thank you. – Demurgos Feb 08 '23 at 10:42
But if I close the terminal, plasmashell goes down. Plasma version 5.26.5 – shmu Mar 19 '23 at 20:33
**@shmu** Did you forget the `&` at the end of the command? For me it works even if I close the terminal – stollr Mar 20 '23 at 15:52
@shmu, try to add `disown` at the end – Sergey Volkov Apr 04 '23 at 09:15

score -1 · Answer 6 · edited Apr 04 '16 at 19:54

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In Debian 8 it's:

killall plasma-desktop && plasma-desktop

to restart

edited Apr 04 '16 at 19:54

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How do I restart the plasma shell in KDE5?

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