Is There Any Program From Which I Can Kill Runing Application?[solved]

As I said in topic.

It would be great to recommend me some GUI program not terminal kommand

Hi
ctrl+esc brings up ksysguard wher u can kill things runnung under user.
su to root in a terminal then enter ksysguard to get the gui for ksysguard for killing root-owned processes

Swerdna

PS for KDE, don't know if it works for Gnome

Hi
ctrl+esc brings up ksysguard wher u can kill things runnung under user.
su to root in a terminal then enter ksysguard to get the gui for ksysguard for killing root-owned processes

Swerdna

PS for KDE, don't know if it works for Gnome
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Also, In a terminal, do "ps aux"
See what the pid is
Type "kill -9 PID#"
if it's a root app
su
password
then kill

Have fun

Generally it's better to do a plain

kill PID

which is the same as

kill -TERM PID

to give apps a chance to exit cleanly. Then I usually try HUP next before KILL.

kill -HUP PID
kill -KILL PID

Type "ps aux | grep NAME.OF.THE.PROGRAM" to see the PID#, then type "kill -9 PID#"

If you know the name of the process and you are sure there is only one by that name, you can also do

killall nameofprocess

The same signals are available, TERM, HUP, KILL, etc.

Sometimes the name is not the one you expect, e.g. firefox is actually firefox-bin because firefox is a shell script that starts up the actual program. But you can figure it out from the ps output the first time.

It would be great to recommend me some GUI program not terminal kommand[/b]

Ctrl + Alt + Esc will turn your mouse-arrow into a skull, with which you can click the application you'd like to kill via leftclick. Hit the right mouse-button in case you change your mind (and aim well).

Works at least in KDE.

Ctrl + Alt + Esc will turn your mouse-arrow into a skull, with which you can click the application you'd like to kill via leftclick.[/b]

Really nice tip, didn't know about that.

Just a tricky question... can you use that tip to kill an application that is running in the system tray ??? I mean an application that you probably dont see in front of other application or one you can switch by [ALT] + [TAB], it's just running in the tray (eg. amarok, KSnapshot, KGet, etc.)

Ctrl + Alt + Esc will turn your mouse-arrow into a skull, with which you can click the application you'd like to kill via leftclick. Hit the right mouse-button in case you change your mind (and aim well).

Works at least in KDE. [/b]

The command-line equivalent is "xkill", which as near as I can tell operates identically. The ctrl-alt-esc may actually just call xkill. If that is the case it is not guaranteed to actually kill the program, but in my experience it usually does. Be careful not to click on the desktop or panel or you will kill your desktop or panel (respectively). I would suspect that it would not work on system tray applets, but I am too scared to try.

I think the gnome equivalent of ksysguard is gnome system monitor, but it crashes for me so I don't know if it can actually kill processes.

Thanks friends.

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