How to restart desktop without logging out on LXDE

[tanoloco]

Hello,

I had to kill all instances of PCManFM because it was hanging .. after doing that my desktop disappeared, meaning that there's no more any document or folder on my desktop and right-clicking on it will show a different context menu from the default one.

As I'm doing a batch job now which will last some hour, I was wondering if there's any command to restart my desktop without logging out.

I googled without luck

Thanks for any suggestion

[ranger1021994]

U can try Alt+F2 and run pcfanman again

[Rodney9]

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[tanoloco]

Thank you ranger1021994,
this almost does the trick.
I found you have to press alt+f2 and type

pcmanfm --desktop

The result it's not perfect, but at least it works.

[MG&TL]

It might be a good idea to kill the hung PCManFM before you start a new one-

killall pcmanfm

[tanoloco]

@MG&TL
Thanks for your headup

To complete things, a final note:
add --profile to show the default lubuntu wallpaper

so the final command is:

pcmanfm --desktop --profile lubuntu