closing a frozen window!?

ungua · 11-13-2004, 09:13 AM

i have a window open in firefox 0.9 showing http://spotlight.de that is freezed. i cannot scroll, close or click in it. right mouse and "close" won't work. how do i close it? anything like ctrl+alt+del in linux suse 9.1!?

best regards
ungua

david_ross · 11-13-2004, 09:15 AM

here are 3 ways:
1) killall firefox
2) ps -ef | grep firefox
then:
kill -9 firefox PID
3) Run "xkill" then click on the firefox window.

ungua · 11-13-2004, 11:38 AM

do i need to use the root-prompt? what is "xkill"? thank you very much for replying, going to try this the next time...

regards
ungua

david_ross · 11-13-2004, 12:35 PM

You don't need to be root unless root started the proccess. The user that starts a proccess should have full control over it. You can see the user that owns each process by running:
ps -ef

ungua · 11-14-2004, 12:30 PM

that's interesting! what's "postifx" and "lp"?

regards
ungua

mithrascruor · 11-14-2004, 01:05 PM

They're daemons running:
postifx - mail server
lp - line printer

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Kyle

ungua · 11-14-2004, 01:38 PM

line printer? something that can help me solving this issue...!?

best regards
ungua