{"id":307,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=307"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"restart-the-tracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=307","title":{"rendered":"Restart the Tracker"},"content":{"rendered":"

If the Tracker hangs or kills itself off for some reason (the most common reason is a badly behaved Tracker add-on), you’ll probably want to make sure it’s all the way dead before restarting it.
\nTo kill the Tracker all the way dead, hit Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring up the Team Monitor, then kill off the Tracker’s remaining threads. To restart the Tracker, bring up the Team Monitor again and you’ll see a new button labeled „Restart Desktop“. Clicking it re-launches the Tracker. If you prefer to do these things manually, open a Terminal and type:<\/p>\n

\/system\/Tracker &<\/pre>\n
similarly, the Deskbar can be restarted by typing<\/p>\n
\/system\/Deskbar &<\/pre>\n
Remember that you can manually kill the Tracker with the Vulcan Death Grip<\/a>. The Deskbar must be killed manually, via the command line, Team Monitor, or with a 3rd party process controller \/ thread manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If the Tracker hangs or kills itself off for some reason (the most common reason is a badly behaved Tracker add-on), you’ll probably want to make sure it’s all the way dead before restarting it. To kill the Tracker all the way dead, hit Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring up the Team Monitor, then kill off the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-tracker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}