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Old 10-09-2003, 08:29 PM   #1
TallAmericano
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Unhappy some applications (games) won't close down


Certain games like Frozen-Bubble or PySol card games will not close or shut down when either clicking on the x, Alt-F4, ESC...
What's happening? I usually end up logging out and back in to get rid of them.
Using MDK 9.1, KDE desktop.
 
Old 10-09-2003, 11:08 PM   #2
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if you can physically get out of the game, just open up an xterm and search for the process identification number (PID) and just kill it:

So if you wanted to end PySol:

ps -ef | grep PySol

-that should show you a PID number (say 1500 for this example)
-then just kill it by:

kill -9 1500
 
Old 10-09-2003, 11:31 PM   #3
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Ok... I typed what you said in Xterm and here are the results:
4440 4409 0 22:25 pts/1 00:00:00 grep PySol

(I know, 22:25 is the time, but what is the id...4440 or 4409 or what?)

Thanks...

 
Old 10-10-2003, 12:06 AM   #4
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Code:
[root@omicron root]# ps -ef
UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
root         1     0  0 Sep13 ?        00:00:06 init
root         2     1  0 Sep13 ?        00:00:00 [keventd]
So it's the first # (PID) that you want to kill.
 
Old 10-10-2003, 12:14 AM   #5
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Now that I looked at that, the output you posted is actually the process info for the grep command your searching with, not the program itself. My guess is that it's running under a differnet name than PySol.

Next time you go to run it try some thing like this:

Before you run do:
ps -ef > before.txt

Then start the program and do:
ps-ef > after.txt

Then do:
diff before.txt after.txt

The output of that will give you what processes are started when you invoke that program. The diff command just compares the two before and after files and tells you what's diff(ernet)
 
Old 10-10-2003, 01:55 AM   #6
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Thanks Capt. I couldn't get it to work like you said, but after googling around, I found this simple solution:
killall -9 Frozen-Bubble
(Frozen-Bubble is the name of the arcade game that always "froze").
 
Old 10-10-2003, 01:56 AM   #7
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If you are running KDE you could use the CTRL+ESC to get to the KDE process viewer look for the name of the application you want to kill, sometimes there are more than one processess for the app, select it and click on kill.

Alternatively, if your in X, you could XKill the app by running the program xkill or using CTRL+ALT+ESC, then click on the program you want to close.

You can also kill apps from the command line which is what your learning from Capt right now.
 
  


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