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Linux equivalent of Win+Ctrl+Shift+B? (Restart graphics driver) (lemy.lol)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I haven't been able to find one. Using Zorin OS which is GNOME.

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[–] 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

It doesn't matter much what Linux you use. Rather what is your desktop environment? (KDE Plasma, Gnome, sway etc.)

On KDE for example there is a shortcut to restart the compositor, which might fix your issue.

But in general you might have luck "restarting" it by switching the tty. You do that by pressing CTRL + ALT + some function key between F1 and F8 (the standard gui tty number depends on the distro). Try to switch to a non gui tty and then back.

For example, on my distro I would do:

  1. CTRL + ALT + F1
  2. CTRL + ALT + F2

but on yours it might be F7 or some other.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    +1 to ctrl-alt-fsomething (start at f1 and go up to move through the different virtual terminals). once in a while there are graphics problems which this will fix.

    If you're using GNOME Shell on X you can reload the shell (and all of its extensions) with alt-f2 and then in the "Run a command" dialog that appears type r and hit enter. Unfortunately this doesn't work in GNOME on Wayland.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    While these can help on other issues, these will do nothing if the driver has an unrecoverable issue.

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