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.
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Sign up to join this communityI don't know why, but plank &
does not work for me.
What I find effective is nohup plank &
killall plank && nohup plank &
-- quite an abracadabra :)
plank &
and you can close your terminal after that.
Jul 8, 2015 at 18:42
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.
killall plank
? Well, after killing it the same way, plank &
is no different than plank
: the dock goes down with the terminal. I have to log out and in to restore the dock