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12-09-2002, 07:26 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2002
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Linux "Taskmanager?"
Is there a comparable ctrl/alt/delete function on Linux? When a program hangs up I have to reboot now. I'm sure there must be a function like that. I can't find it. I'm running Mandrake 8.1. Thanks
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12-09-2002, 08:00 AM
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Moderator
Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
Posts: 43,417
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ctrl alt delete will still reboot your machine. you just need to "kill" the application that is not responding. most window managers let you kill an app on a popup menu on the menu bar or something, or try using something like "xkill" which lets you shoot the defetective program. the proper way to do it though is to run "ps" and find the PID of the buggered program and then kill it using the kill command: "KILL -9 pid_of_program".
alternatively, don;t use badly written KDE applications. :P
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12-09-2002, 09:23 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2002
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really? ctrl/alt/delete doesn't do anything on my system. maybe i have a setting turned off. what usually happens is the screen freezes and i can't move the application out of the way or right click on it. i can press ctrl/alt/delete in MS and still get out of it where here i have to turn the computer off. I run gnome for the most part except for my newsreader whick is knode. maybe thats my problem?
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12-09-2002, 03:58 PM
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Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Sweden
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Another thing you can do if your running GUI mode(if you running KDE) is to use Ctrl-Alt-Esc
Then a little skelteon head will popup
The move the head over the App you want till kill and press the left mouse button , Done !
Last edited by FredrikN; 12-09-2002 at 04:03 PM.
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12-09-2002, 04:12 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2002
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Hey, the ctrl/alt/esc function works! Thanks. However I like using gnome. Is there any comparable functions with gnome?
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12-09-2002, 04:15 PM
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Registered: Apr 2001
Location: Plymouth, England.
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I think it's called xkill
Or, if it's a process that doesn't have a GUI, you could do:
ps -aux | grep "process name" and then
kill followed by the process ID (pid) of the program. If there's more than one running, you can either give all the pids together (kill 1 2 3 4) or use killall. The man pages for all are fairly self explanatory.
HTH
Ooh, just remembered... there's a program 'like' the ol' ctrl+alt+del for Windows called kpm - the KDE Process Manager.
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12-10-2002, 01:08 PM
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Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Durham, England
Distribution: Fedora Core 4
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ctrl-alt-esc in kde just launches xkill
ta -mike
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12-11-2002, 04:36 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2002
Location: Mosquitoville
Distribution: RH 6.2, Gen2, Knoppix,arch, bodhi, studio, suse, mint
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the gnome one is gtop.
my favorite is still the old way.
open a terminal and type top
you can kill the processes there, or
exit and do them by hand.
signal 15 asks the program to exit.
signal 9 kicks its ass
like kill -15 1543
or kill -9 1543
1543 is a random number i made up.
in top, you can hit k
then it will ask the process number,
then it will ask the signal
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