How to apply proxy in mint without reboot?

Question

linux

Good afternoon.
At work, a proxy is used, so they come to work, you need to turn on the proxy so that there is Internet, and restart the computer. I use Mint 17 xfce
What service can be restarted to make the proxy work without restarting the entire OS.

export {http,https,ftp}_proxy="http://proxy-server:port"

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Your setting will only work for those applications that support working through a proxy using environment variables.
Therefore, if it doesn’t work for you right away, restart the application you want, but be aware that not all applications will work through a proxy, and some require personal settings.
PS
And in general, you do not need to restart a computer with Linux at all under any circumstances. Even if you rebuild the system kernel.

Answer 2

It should be easy enough to relogin. You can make different accounts for home and work, or use a script to apply proxy settings when logging in, depending on the network settings.