Kill an Unresponsive Program in Gnome

natewlew · 04-07-2006, 02:50 PM

I just switched to gnome and would like to know how to kill a program. In KDE you used Ctrl+Alt+Esc and Ctrl+Esc. I know Ctrl+Alt+Esc does something, but I really don't get it. What is the equivalent in Gnome?

Maybe programs don't crash in Gnome

scuzzman · 04-07-2006, 02:53 PM

You can use a couple of methods:
1) Go to a command prompt and type: kill <app_name>
2) Run the 'xkill' program and click the application you want to kill (you can add this to your desktop, a menu, or just use a terminal if you have one open).

manishsingh4u · 04-07-2006, 02:59 PM

Run xkill and click the window of the program which you want to kill.

If you are on a command mode only, you can use this.
eg - Here's the sample for Mplayer

Code:

mann@Manish:~$ ps -A | grep mplayer
 7548 ?        00:00:00 gmplayer
mann@Manish:~$ kill 7548
mann@Manish:~$

natewlew · 04-07-2006, 03:41 PM

Thanks for the quick replies. I like the xkill.