Is there any Gui Based Program in Linux as Task Manager in Windows
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This is my first question to ur site. Hope u will assist me. Actually i m getting much prob. in catching processes running on linux through text managers. I want a GUI Based Task Manager as in windows to see the processes status. Is there any Task Manger like this in Linux. Thanks Regards Sheraz |
There are (many), mostly they come along the desktop environment you have. Gnome has it's own "task manager", so does KDE. "Plain" window managers don't usally come with one, but desktops usually do (desktop is basically a window manager added with extra software to make it more like a suite than a single manager). On KDE and Gnome that task manager should be in the admin/system menus, but you can try to right-click your desktop or panel also (I can't remember where it can be launched; usually there's some key combination bound to it also, like ALT+F1 or ALT+ESC or something close to those).
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Just to add that in KDE the shortcut is Control+Escape. I can't tell you what it is for any ofther desktop.
Also if a GUI program has crashed then XKill can be a powerful tool. Invoking XKill then giving a single click on the problem window is generally enough to instantly colse that program. Control+Alt+Escape will invoke XKill in KDE. I find this is generally enough to solve any problems, and the only time there's any real need to use the task manager is if there's a problem with a background program with no visible window, or the computer is slowing down for no aparent reason. |
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Another handy way is just to launch a terminal and use either ps or pstree maybe along with grep to find the difficult process and then terminate it with it's PID number and kill. Code:
ps Code:
ps -e Code:
pstree Code:
ps -e | grep kopete Code:
kill nnnn Code:
kill -9 nnnn If you can't open a terminal (i.e. your whole X is pretty locked up) you can press CTRL+ALT+F1 (trough F6) which usually brings you to a text login. CTRL+ALT+F7 should bring you back to the grahpical server. CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE usually kills X (and possibly restarts it, if it's defined to do so). |
i use qps in linux ... but i have problems finding a good gui-ed "taskmanager" in bsd and solaris ...
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i keep kde going in the backgroand of my fluxbox for speed by just putting Code:
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