On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 03:03, Richard Urwin wrote: > On Wednesday 13 Aug 2003 7:41 am, Anarky wrote: > > normally I use 'gnome-system-monitor' to kill apps, but now an X > > app won't stop with that even. So I do "ps aux | grep app_name" and > > then try "kill pid" ... but still nothing will happen. Any idea? last > > time I fixed it via a reboot ... but I thought linux wasn't like that > > ... greets > > xkill > or > kill -KILL pid > or kill -9 pid
> Just "kill pid" is not hard enough, it just sends the equivilant of a > Ctrl-C to the app. The KILL signal is not trappable, it should kill > anything. xkill is easier if the app has a window open; click on the > window and the app dies.
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