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Using Fedora 10 and for the first time in the two months I've been using Linux I got a program hang and no clicking, alt-ctrl-del would help. It was Event Viewer Okular. So what is the proper procedure when program hangs? I ended up hitting the shutdown button but that doesn't seem right with all the programs running in the back ground..Thanks in advance
You could try alt+ctrl+backspace (not del) to restart x if that doesn't work try alt+ctrl+F1 which should bring you to the running shell and you can then hit ctrl+c to stop the program (which is basically just restarting x and any programs running in it). If all else fails try this.
Hope this helps.
can you walk me thru the force quit...are you talking about shell commands are is it a program...I can do the shell commands but have no idea how I would put that in the taskbar..I didn't know how to get to
Distribution: Ubuntu 11.4,DD-WRT micro plus ssh,lfs-6.6,Fedora 15,Fedora 16
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the command would be xkill, which when launched will present you with a mouse pointer that looks like a skull and crossbones, then simply click somewhere in the crashed window to kill it
if you know how to create icons on the gnome desktop that point to applications, just add one that points to xkill and then add that icon to your taskbar
i believe the term for that icon is 'program launcher' or something
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