What is the command to restart Plank dock in case that is needed?
I have killed it with killall plank but now I cannot start it without logging out.
Doing plank in Terminal keeps it open only until the Terminal is closed.
2 Answers
I don't know why, but plank & does not work for me.
What I find effective is nohup plank &
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4yes indeed. and to restart :
killall plank && nohup plank &-- quite an abracadabra :)– user170Jul 8, 2015 at 18:36 -
1I'm just curious, does the command provided by Cassidy work for someone? I see 5 upvotes, that's why I'm asking. Jul 8, 2015 at 18:38
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there must be 5 happy cases... or not: I also had up-voted it initially :)– user170Jul 8, 2015 at 18:42
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@saintjules it' working for me, you just need to press enter after pasting
plank &and you can close your terminal after that. Jul 8, 2015 at 18:42 -
@BilalElmoussaoui yeah, I figured I had to press enter :) sorry, it's not working here, plank closes as the terminal is closed. Jul 8, 2015 at 19:43
The dock should restart itself automatically. However, if you need to manually run it from the Terminal and want it to continue running in the background, use the command plank &.
The & tells the Terminal to run the plank command in the background, allowing you to close the Terminal without killing the dock.
answered Jul 8, 2015 at 18:23
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Should it be back by itself after
killall plank? Well, after killing it the same way,plank &is no different thanplank: the dock goes down with the terminal. I have to log out and in to restore the dock– user170Jul 8, 2015 at 18:26 -
does that work for you?– user170Jul 8, 2015 at 21:25