open a text console (or term) to log in (as root you if you need to kill a 
program started as root, type su [enter] root [enter] type password for root, 
do not expect to see anything echped to screen as you type the password) type 
"top" [enter] (without the quotes) and look for gaim there are a few ways to 
sort top, and a few ways to get the same info (ps aux gives the whole 
she-bang of running processes) then you will see the number of the processes 
"gaim" started. and in top, you can do k 3407 [enter, enter] (changing 3407 
to match whatever number is the assigned number for the process) 


On Tuesday 05 March 2002 11:44, you wrote:
> Hi all,
> I thought I might be able to give you some peace, but no such luck! I tried
> to use gaim to get onto my msn account, but it has crashed and I can't get
> rid of it. I have it sitting there not responding on my desktop, and can't
> shut it down. Under windows I would simply do a ctrl/alt/del  How do I end
> task in Linux? I've tried rebooting, but when the desktop comes back, so
> does gaim, still stuck there. I'm sure there is a keystroke somewhere
> equivalent to 'end task' - what on earth is it? On the one occasion it
> decided to close itself, when I reopened, it did so in a crashed state and
> wouldn't go away! H

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