How can I close all opened Nautilus (explorer) windows from the terminal?
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nautilus -q or
killall nautilus If nautilus is in the middle of doing something you should use the first command as it allows nautilus to exit gracefully. The second command just "terminates" nautilus so if invoked in the middle of e.g. a copy/move operation you might end up with corrupted data.
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killall nautilusdidn't work for me (over ssh).Sridhar Sarnobat– Sridhar Sarnobat2020-11-19 03:40:27 +00:00Commented Nov 19, 2020 at 3:40 -
pkill nautilus Or to kill everything with nautilus in the name, while insisting:
pkill -9 -f nautilus 
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- 2The side-effects of kill -9 are no big deal. I agree that the executable should have had a chance to shut down cleanly first, but "do not kill -9" gives associations to parents that want their child to wear a helmet at all times.Alexander– Alexander2013-06-09 15:40:39 +00:00Commented Jun 9, 2013 at 15:40
- 1Yeah, not using kill -9 is impractical. In a perfect world, we don't even need to use pkill at all.Sridhar Sarnobat– Sridhar Sarnobat2020-11-19 03:41:24 +00:00Commented Nov 19, 2020 at 3:41