how do i close a program lol

Longinus · 02-14-2004, 11:05 PM

well i have a game running
- its some weird thing where snow just falls down on your desktop...

but i dont know how to close it ... haha...

help?

thanks guys

scott_R · 02-14-2004, 11:17 PM

alt-tab might bring up your desktop again, or hitting 'q' or escape should get you out of it.

Longinus · 02-14-2004, 11:20 PM

meh no luck ...

hrm... is there a way i can do this in terminal?

Berto · 02-14-2004, 11:24 PM

try ps -x then kill it with kill or killall

Longinus · 02-14-2004, 11:41 PM

hey thanks man

yeah i played around wiht the ps command and used ps -A

to view all my proccesses

the -x didnt show that one game lol

thanks again guys

quietguy47 · 02-15-2004, 12:10 AM

Ctrl C
or top(will show all running processes in order of cpu use) then you can use the kill command.