On Friday 02 January 2004 11:48, Russ wrote:

How do you KILL a frozen program? In Mandrake there was Xkill on the menu and you click it, then click on the offending window and it is nuked. Unless I missed it, I find no similar menu item here.

Alt-Ctrl-Esc will change the cursor to a skull and crossbones - click on the offending window. I don't know of any corresponding menu entry.

* Russ [01-02-04 11:48]:

How do you KILL a frozen program? In Mandrake there was Xkill on the menu and you click it, then click on the offending window and it is nuked. Unless I missed it, I find no similar menu item here.

<ctrl><alt><esc> or <alt><f2> xkill <return> and click on the offensive object. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org

Russ writes:

How do you KILL a frozen program? In Mandrake there was Xkill on the menu and you click it, then click on the offending window and it is nuked. Unless I missed it, I find no similar menu item here.

In KDE on 8.2, I have "System -> Tools -> Xkill". I think it's the same or similar on 9.0. -- A.M.

Russ wrote:

Hi All, hi Russ,

How do you KILL a frozen program? In Mandrake there was Xkill on the menu and you click it, then click on the offending window and it is nuked. Unless I missed it, I find no similar menu item here.

Thanks Russ whilst you may have solved the problem by now, I would suggest that you play a little by killing processes using the command line interface.

To do so enter a terminal either from the XWindows or by Ctrl-Alt-F2. Enter the command: top Find the relevant 'naughty' process you want to kill and note its PID value. Press: k (for kill) Type the number of the PID you noted earlier Press: Enter To confirm your choice press: y and then Enter The bad process should disappear from the top listing and also from your X-Windows screen. Press: q ( To exit the 'top' command) Type: exit and press Enter to return you to a login prompt You can get back to the XWindows screen by pressing: Ctrl-Alt-F7. HTH -- ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Licenced ex-Windows user (apart from Quicken) Registered Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Using SuSE 9.0 with KDE 3.1 ========================================================================