Subject: Re: force quit
From: Mark Jaffe (wizards@wizdev.net)
Date: Sun Feb 17 2002 - 23:59:51 MST
>Occasionally applications in KDE (or any other desktop
>environment) will freeze. Is there any way to force
>an individual application that has frozen to quit? Is
>this achieved, (if it is possible), through the
>console environment? Any help would be greatly
>appreciated. Thanks.
>
Quitting an application in Linux is accomplished through the console.
You need to get the process ID of the offending application by
scanning the process list, obtained by typing "ps aux" which will
list ALL running processes, sorted by their ID in the first column.
You may need to expand the console beyond 80 columns to see the whole
line. Then you issue a "kill -9 <pid>" command to stop the process
you wish.
Mark
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