How to kill and restart Nautilus

Nautilus is the default file explorer used in Ubuntu. Sometimes, you may need to kill and restart it to see the effect of installing or removing a program.

The easiest way to kill Nautilus is:

[code lang=bash] $ nautilus -q ```

You can restart it after this. If that does not work, you may need to log out and log back in. But, this is almost never needed.

Tried with: Nautilus 3.4.2 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS