How to close an app which isn't responding

rhawkes · 04-11-2007, 01:05 PM

Hi all,

If an app stops responding, how do I close it? For instance, Evolution (email I use in Ubuntu) hangs every now and again, and it sits there doing nothing for an absolute age before it closes.

Last time I tried Linux, maybe 4 years ago (Coral Linux, if anyone remembers...), if I pressed Ctrl+Alt+Escape (I think) I would get a little cross as my cursor and could tap on the crashed app and it would be killed.

So, simply put, what is the easiest way of killing a process/application in Ubuntu?

Ta - Rich

r00tb33r · 04-11-2007, 01:09 PM

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Originally Posted by rhawkes

Hi all,

If an app stops responding, how do I close it? For instance, Evolution (email I use in Ubuntu) hangs every now and again, and it sits there doing nothing for an absolute age before it closes.

Last time I tried Linux, maybe 4 years ago (Coral Linux, if anyone remembers...), if I pressed Ctrl+Alt+Escape (I think) I would get a little cross as my cursor and could tap on the crashed app and it would be killed.

So, simply put, what is the easiest way of killing a process/application in Ubuntu?

Ta - Rich

open a console and run "xkill" and click on a window of a process you want to be killed. it will kill both the window and the process that created it.
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ctrl+alt+esc works for me (im like using the latest xorg)

rhawkes · 04-11-2007, 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by r00tb33r

ctrl+alt+esc works for me (im like using the latest xorg)

That works a treat - thanks - any ideas how I can enable the ctrl+alt+escape though? I'm running Gnome on Ubuntu.

Ta