Linux Task Manager

Shotz · 02-24-2004, 06:19 AM

I have several questions along these lines:

Is there a Task Manager in Linux?

How do you see the pid´s?
I had a program hang and I wanted to Kill it but I could not identify it and then kill it. I have tried to find a thread on this subject and also looked in the man pages.

I tried xkill but I receive a message:

Code:

Select the window whose client you wish to kill with button 1....

What window and where is button 1? Is this one of the desktop´s and is button 1 the 1 key? (That had to be the stupidest thing I have ever asked!)

Thank you.

Shotz

michaelk · 02-24-2004, 06:28 AM

Either top or ps will display all running processes. See man pages for details.

Button 1 is the left mouse button i.e. if it is configured for a right handed person.

dominant · 02-24-2004, 06:31 AM

give

ps -ef | grep "name of process"

then

kill pid

Peacedog · 02-24-2004, 06:41 AM

for a gui if your using kde, you can open kde systemguard.

Shotz · 02-24-2004, 06:53 AM

Great. Thanks!

phelikz · 02-25-2004, 11:42 AM

i tried to do the gref/ kill pid thing, and it just opened more apps that i could not close
wheni typed kill pid it said no such command..
and systemguard does not exist wheni ran it

Redeye2 · 02-25-2004, 02:37 PM

If you're using KDE, just press ctrl+esc.