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Restart the Graphical Side of OS X

Written by Blaine Houger

Wednesday, 02 January 2008

To restart the WindowServer, which handles the graphical part of the system. Just do that in Terminal, with this command:

sudo killall -HUP WindowServer

Warning: All your opened programs will quit immediately! This is like a restart, but of only the graphical part of the system. Quit your open programs first! You have been warned.

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