Thursday, January 22, 2009

How to kill a hanged/freezed application ?

Have you ever faced a hanged/freezed application while working at GUI of linux/sun etc?
If yes, this topic is for YOU.

Xkill is a utility for forcing the X server to close connections to clients. This program is very dangerous, but is useful for aborting programs that have displayed undesired windows on a user's screen. If no resource identifier is given with -id, xkill will display a special cursor as a prompt for the user to select a window to be killed.

We can use 'xkill' for a hard-to-kill frozen application. First, open a new terminal and type "xkill". After this your cursor will be a square-shaped.

Move to frozen findow and click.

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