 | View Full Version : quick question about KDE chuckt101 01-02-2002, 11:27 PM HOW do you close an app thats not responding?!?!!? In windows, you would do ctrl-alt-del and close it that way, but that doesnt work here! heeeelp :bawling: Right clicking on the taskbar and clicking close does nothing. :confused: ProSam 01-02-2002, 11:45 PM What's KDE? Chicken 01-02-2002, 11:53 PM http://www.kde.org/ ProSam 01-03-2002, 12:06 AM Originally posted by Chicken http://www.kde.org/ Thanks! JTY 01-03-2002, 01:17 AM Bring up a terminal... Type: ps -aux Find the process id for the app that's not responding. Then type: kill -9 <process id> That should do it. jks 01-03-2002, 01:18 AM Originally posted by aragon HOW do you close an app thats not responding?!?!!? In windows, you would do ctrl-alt-del and close it that way, but that doesnt work here! heeeelp :bawling: Right clicking on the taskbar and clicking close does nothing. :confused: The easiest way is to press CTRL-ALT-ESC, that will change the mouse-pointer to a skull, and then click the window you want closed... the program will be killed, and the mouse-pointer returns to normal again. kmh 01-03-2002, 02:39 AM Depends somewhat on what distrobution of linux you're running. Ctrl-Alt-Esc worked for me in Mandrake 8.0, but doesn't do anything in my current RedHat 7.2 setup. In RH, I open up "Process Management" in the "System" folder of the K-menu. That brings up an app that shows you all kinds of neat stuff about all the processes that are running. It will also let you kill a process. In other words... It depends. If you're still looking for help, let us know which distro you're using & maybe we can give you more specific advice. jks 01-03-2002, 02:42 AM Originally posted by kmh Depends somewhat on what distrobution of linux you're running. Ctrl-Alt-Esc worked for me in Mandrake 8.0, but doesn't do anything in my current RedHat 7.2 setup. In RH, I open up "Process Management" in the "System" folder of the K-menu. That brings up an app that shows you all kinds of neat stuff about all the processes that are running. It will also let you kill a process. In other words... It depends. If you're still looking for help, let us know which distro you're using & maybe we can give you more specific advice. Very weird, as I'm running RedHat 7.2 and it works for me :-) priyadi 01-03-2002, 04:57 AM Originally posted by aragon HOW do you close an app thats not responding?!?!!? In windows, you would do ctrl-alt-del and close it that way, but that doesnt work here! heeeelp :bawling: Right clicking on the taskbar and clicking close does nothing. :confused: What distro? On Mandrake there is an XKill icon on the desktop, click on it, your cursor will change to a lightning, then click inside the hung application. Works for me all the time. chuckt101 01-03-2002, 11:22 AM Redhat 7.1 I have yet to try your suggestions, but i'll do it next time im in it.. thanks! bobcares 01-04-2002, 12:19 PM HI! xkill is the command to kill an app in X-windows. If you are using X-windows ctrl-alt-esc is the short cut for xkill if it does not work just run xkill and click on the window with the problem... :) have a great day:) regards amar P.S. How often does an app crash for you.. chuckt101 01-04-2002, 01:53 PM Originally posted by bobcares HI! P.S. How often does an app crash for you.. well it was only that once. I was using XMMS to play mp3s off of my windows partition. First time I Tried, it froze... It works fine now :eek: And I forgot to do the ctrl-alt-esc thing to see if it works on my redhat 7.1 :rolleyes: Anyways, the whole OS froze last night while i was on AIM! I was rather surprised actually..... couldn't do anything but hit reboot :mad: anyways.. Oh in case you were wondering, i did mount the windows partition, etc... that was not the problem ;) |