On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi :) > > Are you using linux? If so then try getting to a command-line and try > something > like > > ps aux | grep libreoffice
That was the first thing I did. And soffice, actually. > > The | is between the z and the left-shift on English(UK) keyboards but it > might it's right above the enter key here. > be somewhere around the enter key or right-shift on laptops and US keyboards. > I'm not entirely convinced that grepping for libreoffice would show all > relevant > processes so try that one first and then replace the word "libreoffice" with > other likely suspects. This will hopefully give a list of processes that > have a > 4 or 5 digit number at the front. To kill a process type in > > kill number At that time, not such process showed. I know how kill works, but thanks for explaining it. Somebody else might need that info. > > but replace "number" with the number of the process you want to "kill". > > There is a nice gui one too. In Ubuntu go up to the top taskbar and click on > System Administration - "System Monitor" and then on the "Processes" tab. I > think you can kill processes right there in the gui. This is debian, not ubuntu, and I don't use gnome or kde or any other such bloated mess. (using plain openbox, without lxde, any panels or extra nonsense). Again, that information might be useful to someone else, anyway. ./tony -- http://www.baldwinlinguas.com http://www.baldwinsoftware.com -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
