Terminating an unresponsive program
 

XMMS has crashed when I tried to use a different output plugin, its frozen and wont close. How can I terminate the program externally? I tried ps -af and nothing for xmms is listed, any ideas?

Cheers,

ps ax | grep xmms
kill -9 <pidFromAbove>

You can just run "xkill" from a terminal, menu or the "run program" dialogue and then click on the program you want to kill.

xkill removes a client window's connection from the X server. It doesn't make any attempt whatsoever to stop the program that drew the window, and will 99% of the time leave it running...

Cheers for that, just what I needed. This forum saves me yet again.

How about
skill -9 xmms
? :)


Cheers,
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