On 6/29/10, Jaqui <jaquigreenl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jun 28, 2:01 pm, Beverly Howard <b...@bevhoward.com> wrote: >> >> how to get the flawed ui* design Seamonkey 2 series to completely >> shut down when all windows closed? << >> >> It is a bug, but it appears to be related to specific os installs. >> >> I have had the same problem on an XPProSP2 Tablet Edition computer for >> years with no resolution. >> >> It appears to be related to the combination of windows open when >> seamonkey is shut down, but I have been unable to track a reproducible >> set of steps to report it. >> >> THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN ON SEVERAL OTHER XPPROSP2 non tablet computers >> running the same SM versions. >> >> >> I should NOT have to reboot the os to shut the suite down. << >> >> Don't need to... close seamonkey, open task manager, processes from all >> users, sort by image name and end all seamonkey.exe processes... not >> elegant, but only takes a few seconds after you do it a dozen or so >> times ;-) >> >> Beverly Howard > > ~chuckle~ > This is on a GNU/Linux system, I don't own a copy of windows. :D > and unfortunately, the distro uses KDE4 so the process manager is no > longer available. > [ completely separate issue there, KDE4.x is directly comparable to > windows vista ( useless ), but it won't be killed off by the devs, > they think no usability is a good thing. ] > > I went hunting for the process manager, to specifically shut down the > seamonkey processes, not available with the KDE4.x UI any more. Even > went searching through the 10,000 packages in the package manger, not > available for install. Which means the only way to shut seamonkey down > completely is to reboot the system.
Probably an ignorant question, but can't you su to become root, ps -elf | grep seamonkey to find the pid & then kill -9 <seamonkey pid> to shut SM down? Lee _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
