FORCE QUIT APPLICATION

[jimt123]

If an application stops responding how do I force it to quit without rebooting

thanks

[caf4926]

(Not pretty but) Usually if you click the living daylights out of the close button, you'll get a terminate box pop up.

Otherwise you can stop user tasks with the system monitor

After that it gets a little more complicated..

[djh-novell]

caf4926 wrote:
> (Not pretty but) Usually if you click the living daylights out of the
> close button, you'll get a terminate box pop up.

Or if you click it just once and then wait the same length of time as
you'd otherwise spend clicking the living daylights, you may find a box
still pops up saying that the program is not responding YMMV of course.

[DenverD]

On 06/07/2011 12:06 PM, jimt123 wrote:
>
> If an application stops responding how do I force it to quit without
> rebooting

since you don't tell your desktop environment i'll assume it is the same
as mine:

- press and hold Alt, then press F2
- a small blank will pop up at the top center of the screen, just to the
left of the blank, are two tiny icons, a wrench/spanner on the left and
a 'heartbeat' monitor looking thing to its right..
-click on the monitor icon
-find the name of the application not responding
-highlight it with a single left click, then click the "End Process"
button..


alternatively:

-open a terminal
-type in and enter top
-find the non-responding program
-in the first column will be a four digit number
-press 'q' (which will end top and return you to the prompt)
-carefully type in and enter kill [1234] or whatever the number is
-type exit and enter

another alternative:

-click on the non-responding window to give it focus
-press Ctrl+Alt+Esc
-your mouse pointer turns into a skull and crossbones
-hold the skull over the non-responding application and single left click

another....nah! that is enough for now..

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[hendersj]

On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:20:20 +0000, DenverD wrote:

> -open a terminal
> -type in and enter top
> -find the non-responding program
> -in the first column will be a four digit number -press 'q' (which will
> end top and return you to the prompt) -carefully type in and enter
> kill [1234] or whatever the number is -type exit and enter

Or in top, you can just press 'k' and enter the process ID.

Jim



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[DenverD]

On 06/07/2011 07:12 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:

> Or in top, you can just press 'k' and enter the process ID.

i must have forgotten that some years ago...right after i forgot what i
had for breakfast.

the test will be if i remember that the next time i need it (if not i'll
do "q kill [PID]" like usual)

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[Habitual]

Alt, then press F2
xkill

[jimt123]

thanks everyone

[martin_helm]

In KDE you can simply use the key combination [CTRL][ALT][ESC] (this runs
xkill).

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[wakou]

Thanks for these folks, I get a lot of hang/freezes with Windows apps under wine/xover (my bad, prolly), and these killers will be v. handy, ty ty.........