Under Windows 98/Me, pressing ctrl-alt-del i) reveals the programs that are running and ii) permits stopping any that are misbehaving. What is the easiest way to accomplish the same objectives under Linux? geno
Try investigating the ' top ' command or if you know the name of the process ( ? netscape) try killall netscape or ps aux | grep netscape then kill -9 process number. Regards F
It depends on what working environment you are in. If you are in kde, its easy. ctrl-alt-del will call up a similar program to the one in windows and you can kill a process from a list. To see a list of processes when you are in a shell ( the command prompt ), type ps ax to get a list. or pstree to see a list in tree form. You can use the command kill followed by the process number that is revealed in the list. dids
Under Windows 98/Me, pressing ctrl-alt-del i) reveals the programs that are running and ii) permits stopping any that are misbehaving. What is the easiest way to accomplish the same objectives under Linux?
geno
Hi There is another tool too... Press cntr-alt-esc, and You get a nice sceleton, and You can click on the window that You wan to kill then.. Jaska. Viestissä Keskiviikko 7. Marraskuuta 2001 17:19, dids kirjoitti:
It depends on what working environment you are in.
If you are in kde, its easy. ctrl-alt-del will call up a similar program to the one in windows and you can kill a process from a list. To see a list of processes when you are in a shell ( the command prompt ), type ps ax to get a list. or pstree to see a list in tree form.
You can use the command kill followed by the process number that is revealed in the list.
dids
Under Windows 98/Me, pressing ctrl-alt-del i) reveals the programs that are running and ii) permits stopping any that are misbehaving. What is the easiest way to accomplish the same objectives under Linux?
geno
On November 7, 2001 10:03 am, geno wrote:
Under Windows 98/Me, pressing ctrl-alt-del i) reveals the programs that are running and ii) permits stopping any that are misbehaving. What is the easiest way to accomplish the same objectives under Linux?
geno
GUI - KDE -> KDE System Guard; 'ksysguard ' It is on /opt/kde2/share/applnk/System/ksysguard.desktop path or ps ax and kill -9 'process-nr' man ps and kill Cheers j /----------------------------------------------------------/ "Choose Linux to choose freedom!"
j wrote:
GUI - KDE -> KDE System Guard; 'ksysguard '
There's also quite a nice graphical way of killing things sometimes. You press ctrl-alt-esc (I'm pretty sure) and the cursor will change to a skull and cross-bones. You then position the cursor somewhere over the window of the application you want to kill and left-click. I'm not sure what this does exactly - presumably figures out which process owns the window and sends it a signal... but we're in the X-Server which could be a different machine... hmmm... - but it seems to work. The nice thing about this is that you don't have to figure out that the app is called "xblobthingy". You just point to it and say "die!" :) Cheers, -nick
* Nick Battle
j wrote:
GUI - KDE -> KDE System Guard; 'ksysguard '
There's also quite a nice graphical way of killing things sometimes. You press ctrl-alt-esc (I'm pretty sure) and the cursor will change to a skull and cross-bones. You then position the cursor somewhere over the window of the application you want to kill and left-click. I'm not sure what this does exactly - presumably figures out which process owns the window and sends it a signal... but we're in the X-Server which could be a different machine... hmmm... - but it seems to work.
The nice thing about this is that you don't have to figure out that the app is called "xblobthingy". You just point to it and say "die!" :)
That is the 'xkill' application. -- Mads Martin Joergensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogic, with just a little bit more effort." -- A. P. J.
The xkill program runs on the server. Remember that in the wonderful world of X, the server is the piece of software that runs on the machine connected to the monitor that displays the windows. The client is the program that tells the server what to display. Under X it can, theoretically, run anywhere with a network connection to your machine. I think xkill simply kills all windows registered under the same process, and the client (program) dies with a "lost connection with X" error. regards Anders On Wednesday 07 November 2001 17.03, Nick Battle wrote:
Mads Martin Joergensen wrote:
That is the 'xkill' application.
Ah! So it runs at the client and and can "see" the other process. I thought it might be the server doing something clever, but that sounded wrong.
Cheers, -nick
Anders Johansson wrote:
I think xkill simply kills all windows registered under the same process, and the client (program) dies with a "lost connection with X" error.
I see. That probably explains why it's not so good for killing apps that have really got themselves seriously locked up - they don't care/notice if they lose the X connection. -nick
* geno
Under Windows 98/Me, pressing ctrl-alt-del i) reveals the programs that are running and ii) permits stopping any that are misbehaving. What is the easiest way to accomplish the same objectives under Linux?
'ps aux' will give you a list of all processes. Then pick whatever pid and do a kill of that pid. Or simply do a 'killall <name>' as in 'killall mozilla' -- Mads Martin Joergensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogic, with just a little bit more effort." -- A. P. J.
On Wed, 07 Nov 2001 10:03:21 -0500
geno
Under Windows 98/Me, pressing ctrl-alt-del i) reveals the programs that are running and ii) permits stopping any that are misbehaving. What is the easiest way to accomplish the same objectives under Linux?
I like to use qps (I think it came with my 7.0 distro, but I can't check just now). It is one of several X applications to display running processes and you can send any signal you want, including, of course, kill. I would be lost without it. Geoff _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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