command for WM restarting

[sebqas]

Is there any command (invoked in command line) to restart the running WM ?

[gryf]

You can use signal SIGUSR1 to do so (see NEWS file for details), i.e.

$ killall -SIGUSR1 wmaker

or, to be precise send that signal to the process which have --for-real parameter:

$ kill -SIGUSR1 $(ps aux | grep "[w]maker --for-real" |awk '{print $2}')

[sebqas]

thanks, the --for-real parameter is essential, otherwise, it kills wmaker with all child processes