Subject: Re: force quit
From: Dylan Ward (dylan.@esatclear.ie)
Date: Mon Feb 18 2002 - 03:31:21 MST
Chris Alden wrote:
>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.
>
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To do this through a console, use the ps command:
ps /options/
Paruse the man page for the options you want. The ps command lists all
the processes you are running at the moment.
If you have to many processes to display, use the more command to let
you scroll through the list:
ps /options/ | more
When you find the process that has frozen, issue the command:
kill /process-id/
The /process-id/ can be found under the'PID' column. This will close
the frozen program.
If you wish to do this using KDE, use the Process Management program in
the menu under 'System'. This brings up a graphical version of the ps
program. Here you just scroll through the different processes until you
see the one you want, click on it to highlight the row in question and
either click on the kill command in the 'Signal' menu or hit Ctrl+K to
kill the process.
I have the same problem from time to time and this is what gets me
through it.
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