Add a soft reboot option to the shut down app in favorites

[Grahm850]

Now that systemd has added a soft reboot command, I think it should be added to the menu-> favorites-> shut down->options [cancel, suspend, soft restart, restart, shutdown]

[fosslover306]

What is a soft reboot? Is it just restarting the kernel but leaving everything else loaded?

[Grahm850]

What is a soft reboot? Is it just restarting the kernel but leaving everything else loaded?

a soft reboot only resets user space (reinit desktop environment)
It doesn't reinitialize hardware. it is faster

if a peripheral stops working do a hard restart
if your software crashes and you want clean up; do a soft restart

if you'd like to try it, save all modified files and copy: systemctl soft-reboot to the terminal, enter.

[fosslover306]

So It restarts user space to deal with weird problems like mouse cursors getting stuck or something?

That rocks +1.

[Grahm850]

exactly, probably.

its probably a software glitch, but could be your usb controller.
in general its probably software when your apps start acting weird