PDF viewer problem

tjd · 09-15-2004, 10:43 PM

I am using Fedora Core 2, and a few days ago I opened a PDF to read it. It was good!

It what was such good reading that I thought I would like to read it again next time I logged on, so I chose "save current set up" when I logged out.

But now I can't get rid of the PDF viewer window. If I choose quite or click on the window close button, it crashes, wiping out the desktop icons it is hovering above. Everything seems fine if I just leave it there, but I would like to get rid of it.

Any ideas what I can do?

CroMagnon · 09-15-2004, 11:21 PM

In a terminal, use 'ps axww | grep xpdf' to find the PID of the program, then kill it, e.g:

Code:

[bash]$ ps axww | grep xpdf
12966 pts/48   Ss     0:00 xpdf
[bash]$ kill -9 12966

Then log off and have it save the desktop again.

tjd · 09-16-2004, 12:00 AM

Great, that worked! Many thanks!

jspaar · 09-16-2004, 02:21 PM

Just FYI, you could also use the Hat->Preferences->Sessions thingy to remove stuff from your session.