Restart cinnamon from terminal 1

Restart Cinnamon Desktop in Terminal 1

Warning

Remember CTRL-ALT-F7 to switch from terminal 1 back to Desktop/GUI/terminal 7 [2].

1. Switch to terminal 1 via CTRL-ALT-F1 and execute following commands:

   # Terminate Cinnamon desktop (forcefully kill all processes named 'cinnamon')
   killall -9 cinnamon
   # Restart Cinnamon desktop environment
   export DISPLAY=:0.0 && cinnamon --replace &
   

2. Switch back to desktop via CTRL-ALT-F7

Sources

1. Restart cinnamon from CLI ~ forums.linuxmint.com
2. What is terminal 7 | tty7 ~ perplexity.ai