if you put a script in ~/bin to kill the process your wife can alt+F2 or switch to the terminal and run the command with autocompletion (say kill_myth or kill_ice).
I had similar problems with VirtualBox in the past, and as it runs a lot of processes i made the script. autocompletion in the command-prompt made it an easy job for me
(it got solved by itself, btw).
Code:
$ cat ~/bin/kill_virtualbox
#!/usr/bin/env bash
for i in $(ps ax | grep virtualbox | awk '{ print $1 }')
do
kill $i
done
exit 0
If its single instances you could just use pgrep.
I got the feeling that this is kinda obvious, but as you mentioned the problems for your wife i thought i would post it anyway.
In case it is related to flash you could try this script:
https://github.com/fsmithred/scripts...a80/flashfire7
though removing all of ~/.macromedia and ~/.adobe does just the same (only a bit less filigree).
not much, i know.