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Just open a terminal window type top find the process you need to kill press k it will ask for the PID number enter that, press enter, then yes to confirm. Thats it
htop is ideal for this. It's almost certainly available from your distro's repositories. It's an ncurses application so runs in the terminal but presents information graphically as well as textually and is easily controlled using the function keys (with clear indicators at the bottom of the screen as to which key does what). If you run Xfce it has its own task manager which is entirely graphical and will let you see resource useage and kill processes in the gui. If you simply want to kill a badly behaved gui application you can Alt+F2 and run xkill and do it with the mouse.
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