gnome shell dock goes blank
Sometimes the Gnome Shell dock (application launcher strip) goes blank. To get it back without logging out and back in: Press Alt + F2 Type r Press Enter This will restart GNOME Shell while keeping your applications running. To do this in a shell script: #!/bin/bash dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=org.gnome.Shell /org/gnome/Shell org.gnome.Shell.Eval string:'global.reexec_self()'