Use xkill:
1) Launch a shell,
2) Type "xkill" (and press return),
3) Then "touch" (left mouse button) the X-window you want to kill.
I think of this as the "finger of death" technique and have found it *VER=
Y*=20
effective when some X program seems to get stuck.

On Friday 09 January 2004 10:57, J wrote:
> expanded version
> Try "kill -9" on root console. Of course you have to type in the PID
> number.
>
> > On occasion I've had a program freeze (mostly it's xine). I haven't b=
een
> > able to kill the program when this happens.
> > I've tried restarting X, all that does is remove the applications
> > interface from my screen. `ps -ax` still shows it as running.
> > I've tried `kill` and that has no effect.
> > So my question is how do you kill a process when `kill` doesn't work?
> > Thx,
> > Bart

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