Comments on: HOWTO: Kill an Application in KDE.

By: donkeyofdarkness

donkeyofdarkness — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:43:48 +0000

You can also use xkill. Just type xkill at the terminal and then click the window you want to kill.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 19:46:19 +0000

Good to know, thanks.

Your observation that Gnome is lacking power-user features is shared by a large group of people. I don’t take sides in the KDE/Gnome wars because I think people should use whatever works best for them, but that complaint it common amongst the KDE supporters (or rather, the anti-Gnomers).

By: Ibrahim Mohammad

Ibrahim Mohammad — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:39:44 +0000

‘gnome-session-properties’ is the command to run it but you still have switch to the ‘Current Session’ tab. The keyboard shortcuts in preferences doesnt support adding a new action, so how would I create a hotkey for it?
Gnome is very easy to use for inexperienced users, but lacks several features used by power users. Still I really like gnomes default panel arrangement.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:21:24 +0000

Thanks Ibrahim,

That does seem really odd that there’s no shortcut to the Gnome session manager.

Can it be run from the command line?

By: Ibrahim Mohammad

Ibrahim Mohammad — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:10:06 +0000

I have been using kde for months, but just yesterday i decided to check out how much has gnome changed, well this gnome sessions thing can be accessed from Desktop>Preferences>More Preferences>Sessions
Now a window opens up and u have to select the current session tab. Hmmm, now how can these gnome developers expect me to reach there when a software on my pc freezes, there must be a simpler way. Funny there is no hotkey to be found for that in the gnome user guide.

By: Free Software Blog » Blog Archive » Kill an application in KDE

Free Software Blog » Blog Archive » Kill an application in KDE — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 15:07:06 +0000

[...] New Linux User has a very useful article about how to kill an application that misbehaves in your KDE. [...]

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 18:26:28 +0000

Hey Akex:

I did some Googling and there appears to be an application called the Gnome Session Properties that will provide this capability. It doesn’t appear to have a Kill button, but the Remove button seems to do the same thing.

I don’t know how you launch it, but the application name appears to be gnome-session. Is there a ‘run’ box in Gnome? If not, you can likely run it from the command line. But hey, if you’re at the command line then you may as well just kill it there. Maybe you can find it by digging around in the menus.

Any Gnomers out there who can help us out?

Gnome Session Properties: http://www.fifi.org/doc/gnome-session/html/session/C/

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 18:18:44 +0000

I wonder if there a similar thing in Gnome? I’ve just started using Ubuntu Linux 5.10, which defaults to Gnome, but I’ve had to resort to the command line to kill applications – not my idea of user-friendly!

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 16:41:43 +0000

Excellent, thanks Colbert!

By: colbert

colbert — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 07:59:42 +0000

there’s a way to restart the app if it is needed.

1. type : ps -ef | grep {app name}
2. find out the process ID
3. type : kill -HUP {process ID}