Force Quit in KDE

mattp · 03-13-2004, 01:12 PM

Is there any force quit command in KDE, similar to Windows' ctrl+alt+del?

Peacedog · 03-13-2004, 01:19 PM

ctrl + alt + backspace should kill the xsession.

mattp · 03-13-2004, 03:12 PM

What is xsession. I need something that will close an app if it is locked up.

mhearn · 03-13-2004, 03:14 PM

Try running "xkill". Gnome 2.4 has this built in - you can force quit a program either from the panel or by clicking the close button of the window in metacity: after a few seconds it'll time out and give you the option of killing the hung app.

mattp · 03-13-2004, 06:41 PM

Thanks, I'll give it a shot.

Kristijan · 03-13-2004, 09:37 PM

If that dosen't work, just 'ps aux' and kill the PID of the application.

megaspaz · 03-13-2004, 09:48 PM

a little more dangerous, but for apps and processes that have an easily identifiable name, you could use "killall process_name".

examples:

killall xmms
killall java
killall gkrellm
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.
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etc...