Jerome Yuzyk posted on Tue, 26 Nov 2013 18:31:03 -0800 as excerpted: > How does one restart KDED after it crashes?
Simply type in and run kded4 from a konsole window or krunner. Just tried it here; it works (from either). Alternatively, Ctrl-Alt-Fx (where Fx denotes one of the function keys, F1- Fwhatever) and run it from a text login, but you'll have to set DISPLAY appropriately first, or it won't be able to contact X and find the still running kde instance. For this purpose it's useful to know what your DISPLAY variable is set to, BEFORE you have a problem where you need to know it, so you can set it appropriately in a text login. Type this in a konsole window and note its output: env | grep DISPLAY The output I get here is: DISPLAY=:0 Then, kded4 --help-qt mentions the --display switch, and this works from a text login, as long as X/KDE is running on a different VT: kded4 --display :0 Or equivalently, set the DISPLAY variable as part of the command (this is with bash, but I think any POSIX compatible shell should support it): DISPLAY=:0 kded4 FWIW, knowing your DISPLAY setting should allow you to start nearly any X- based program from a text login, with it then running on the X session associated with that DISPLAY setting. So for instance I can run kpat from a text login like so: DISPLAY=:0 kpat -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
