Killing processes
 

Hello

What is the command to kill an application that has frozen? I have a few problem avi's that keep crashing XMMS player, and each time I have to reboot the system to get rid of it.

Thanks

Hong

Look up the PID of the process using ps (or use pidof) and then kill <pid>. If it still doesn't exit, kill -9 <pid> should end it. if not, post the line from ps aux corresponding to the process.

well you can type

killall xmms

or do ps ax

then kill the apps pid number

kill pidnumber

if the process doesn't die

killall -9 xmms
kill -9 pidnumber

or in the gui just type xkill in terminal move cursor over offending app click

Thank you, did the trick! :)