How to kill my program?

kewlchen · 08-12-2003, 07:14 AM

Hi everyone. I just start a job "fcitx" from shell and put it running background, but I have no idea how to kill it. Please give me a hint. Many thanks.

tangle · 08-12-2003, 07:18 AM

ps x | grep fcltx
this will return a process number

kill <process number>
this will kill that process

slakmagik · 08-12-2003, 07:33 AM

Or just foreground it and kill it however you normally would. (Not sure what 'fcitx' is.)

kewlchen · 08-12-2003, 08:09 AM

To digiot, fcitx is just a chinese input program. And I am just a newby and don't know how to foreground it

To tangle, I typed the command and it returned:
3600 pts/2 S 0:00 fcitx
is 3600 the process number?

if I kill it, is the command like "kill !3600"?

Thanks

kewlchen · 08-12-2003, 08:13 AM

I tried "kill 3600", but the shell showed "fcitx:Abnormal exit", can someone tell me why?

acid_kewpie · 08-12-2003, 08:16 AM

why? because you killed it....! that's not exactly normal is it?

Proud · 08-12-2003, 01:56 PM

There's a difference between recieving the default signal from kill, and the signal from a close button, right?

slakmagik · 08-12-2003, 03:40 PM

As far as I know, 'fg' will do it. But you might have to ctrl-c after, come to think of it.

*g* @ acid_kewpie

'fcitx: argh! 'tis a mortal wound. I die...'