Re: force quit


Subject: Re: force quit
From: Sean O. Denney (sdenney@cise.ufl.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 18 2002 - 06:25:39 MST


1. Open a terminal window
2. Type "ps -ax"
3. Look under the column PID for the applications process ID
4. Type "kill -9 PID" (replacing PID for the number you just looked
up)

--- Sean

On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, 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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