On Wednesday 19 December 2001 11:22 pm, you wrote:
The easiest way is pressing control-alt-escape, and clicking on the window.
Doesn't seem to work. I get a skull & crossbones icon, which I assume is meant to simulate the "kill" command when I click on a given window. No
OK. Open up a terminal window and use ps -aux to find the process number. (Pipe it to grep with a string you're looking for to find it without looking at the often long list.) Then type kill with the process id. If that doesn't work, use kill -9 on it; which will stop anything no matter what.
The best book on Linux I've ever read is O'Reilly's book "Unix Power Tools". Don't be fooled by the book's title, this is not merely a collection of Unix utilities (though it does include on the CD a few
Thanks for the tip! I'll see if I can talk the old lady into letting me buy it with my own money! :)
It's good but it's not a total beginner's manual, you'll need some other tutorials to learn the commands you'll need, such as ps, kill, and everything else. O'Reilly (www.oreilly.com) publishes a lot of good Linux and Unix books, some fun to read, others dry (but well written) references.