How do I kill a process ?

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There have been instances when, I think it was Thunderbird, seemed to be stuck and I could not quit it in the normal way. It happened with another that I can’t remember, might have been Amarok. Amarok is very slow and I will work on that later.
But for now, what is a good tool that will show me the running processes and permit me to kill one ?

thanks

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from the console:

top

:expressionless:

or, from the GUI:
system monitor (KSysGuard).

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On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 18:16:02 +0000, hextejas wrote:

> There have been instances when, I think it was Thunderbird, seemed to be
> stuck and I could not quit it in the normal way. It happened with
> another that I can’t remember, might have been Amarok. Amarok is very
> slow and I will work on that later.
> But for now, what is a good tool that will show me the running processes
> and permit me to kill one ?
>
> thanks

“kill”. see “man kill”. :slight_smile:

Jim

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Simplest way in the GUI:

Alt+F2 (to get a menu from which to run a command)
xkill

Your cursor will turn into an ‘x’. Don’t miss… click on the app that
you want to die and it will die pretty quickly.

Good luck.

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You can see a list of running processes with

ps -A

you will see a PID number this is the process ID

to kill the process

kill PID

note you can only kill process you own.

Also in the GUI
Ksysguard is a nice GUI shows running process and you can kill from there

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On Fri 23 Aug 2013 06:56:01 PM CDT, gogalthorp wrote:

You can see a list of running processes with

ps -A

you will see a PID number this is the process ID

to kill the process

kill PID

note you can only kill process you own.

Also in the GUI
Ksysguard is a nice GUI shows running process and you can kill from
there

Hi
Use pidof instead of searching for the PIDor killall for example


kill -9 `pidof some-app`
killall some-app

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