# "Reset" Makie without killing Julia process?

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**Category:** Visualization\
**Tags:** question, makie\
**Created:** [January 8, 2024, 9:53am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/reset-makie-without-killing-julia-process/108504 "2024-01-08T09:53:22Z")\
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Might the new Malt help:

> [@\[ANN\] Malt.jl – Distributed alternative (used internally by Pluto)](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-malt-jl-distributed-alternative-used-internally-by-pluto/108401/1):
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> Malt supports **interrupting a worker process on Windows** , not just on UNIX.

Malt is a sub-project of Pluto, used in it, while it’s now an independent package. I believe it’s used to interrupt Pluto, then it restarts, the whole notebook, but you want only the plot/Makie to restart. For now you might need to use it together manually.

> [@p\_f](#):
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> I understand there might be a specific way to fix this error (not immediately obvious to me), but I’d like something that just lets me reset all of Makie so I can just start fresh. Is that possible?

It’s of course best to prevent errors (in Makie or your code), and I don’t know about that, nor looked into, but I’m curious if it makes sense to use Malt with Makie, for you at least. I’m not sure it should be a default for Makie or other plotting, it likely is better to have Makie in the same process, rather than is a Malt sandbox, but you could try. Maybe it could become a non-default option?

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