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Longinus 02-14-2004 11:05 PM

how do i close a program lol
 
well i have a game running
- its some weird thing where snow just falls down on your desktop...

but i dont know how to close it ... haha...

help?

thanks guys

scott_R 02-14-2004 11:17 PM

alt-tab might bring up your desktop again, or hitting 'q' or escape should get you out of it.

Longinus 02-14-2004 11:20 PM

meh no luck ...

hrm... is there a way i can do this in terminal?

Berto 02-14-2004 11:24 PM

try ps -x then kill it with kill or killall

Longinus 02-14-2004 11:41 PM

hey thanks man

yeah i played around wiht the ps command and used ps -A

to view all my proccesses

the -x didnt show that one game lol

thanks again guys

quietguy47 02-15-2004 12:10 AM

Ctrl C
or top(will show all running processes in order of cpu use) then you can use the kill command.


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