Yes, the killall worked of course (I should have checked my book...!), and I have successfully installed AMSN with the dpkg command. It does seem that the KPackage app is broken, but it could be because of my installation CD that is a little scratched already. I guess I will have to pick up another one at the next meeting.... :-)
I am glad that I know how to kill apps now!
Thanx again, Diana
Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
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o press Ctrl-Escape and up comes a listing of your running programs (aka
processes. in that list you can select and then kill processes.
after sending this, i though i should say a bit more about ksysguard, which is what is launched (albeit in a very trimmed-down GUI) when you press Ctrl-Escape under KDE....
it allows setting up sheets (well, tabs, really) of various sorts of graphs for just about anything you could want to watch at the system level. from logs, to temperatures, to disk and network usage/throughput, to CPU usage, to processes and pprocess management to...
some of the neat things include:
o being able to set up your own worksheets of NxM grids of graphs
o being able to drag 'n drop multiple sensors to the same graph so they superimpose on each other
o being able to connect to remote hosts (as long as they have ksysguardd installed) via SSH, RSH, etc... to do remote monitoring...
o supports multiple UNIX(-like) OSes, including Linux (duh ;), Solaris, Irix, Tru64, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and NetBSD (not all OSes support all sensor types)
anyways.. i think it's one of those neat tools that comes with KDE (in kdebase) that few people really know about; probably in part because it's something for the techie admin rather than the new user, and in part because during most of the KDE 2.x cycle it had tons of annoying problems....
- -- Aaron J. Seigo
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