I pulled skill to the desktop. :-)Mike(-: ----- Original Message ----- From: Ed Skinner Sent: 1/9/2004 1:15:48 PM To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: killing stubborn processes update 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 --=20 Ed Skinner, ed@flat5.net, http://www.flat5.net/ --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss This message has been scanned for viruses by the VEI Internet Automatic Email Spam and Virus Scanner, and is believed to be free of spa= m or viruses. Please report spam to spamtrap@vei.net. If you would like 98.9 % spam blo= cked from your E-mail then go to VEI Internet for details. Anti-spam/Anti-virus is FREE = with every account.=20 http://www.vei.net/ mailtospamtrap@vei.net