How to kill an minimize program (SuSE)

cbjhawks · 01-19-2004, 05:58 AM

I tried to load KCommander3.3.0 but the program crashed while loading...the only option I had was to minimize it. Now of course when I boot to the root it's there in my taskbar...any thoughts on how I can get rid of this so it doesnt appear at startup? Thanks for your reply.

JZL240I-U · 01-19-2004, 08:01 AM

What GUI / window manager do you use? If KDE, (and possibly Gnome) try right click on the symbol in the task bar and carry on from the context menu.

Else type

Code:

ps -a | grep KCommander

which gives you the ident number of the process (PID). Then type

Code:

kill -9 #PID

with #PID the process number of the process you want to stop.

cbjhawks · 01-19-2004, 08:26 AM

I have tried the 'right click' option...no luck, it doesnt close...good idea on the egrep command...thanks.

Santas · 01-19-2004, 02:10 PM

open a console type 'ps -d' then you qet something like this:

PID TTY TIME CMD
1 ? 00:00:04 init
2 ? 00:00:00 keventd
3 ? 00:00:00 kapmd
4 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0
5 ? 00:00:00 kswapd
6 ? 00:00:00 bdflush
7 ? 00:00:00 kupdated
8 ? 00:00:00 mdrecoveryd
12 ? 00:00:00 kjournald
203 ? 00:00:00 khubd

look at the number of the process you want to kill then type this as root 'kill -9 xxx' where xxx i the number of the process.

chrisk5527 · 01-19-2004, 04:55 PM

You could also issue:

# skill -9 KCommander

Make sure your root too.

detpenguin · 01-19-2004, 11:15 PM

in SuSE it's called xkill. run it from a command line...then put the little crosshairs on the window you wanna kill, and click it

JZL240I-U · 01-20-2004, 05:04 AM

There is also a combination of keys -- <Alt> + <Esc> I seem to remember -- which changes your mouse cursor to a skull...