On Sat, 12 May 2012 15:04:25 -0700
John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 1) I can't read the list of running processes easily. I see the
> application I want to kill, but just as I am about to read its PID,
> the screen jumps. How do I make the list of running processes sit
> still?
Instead of using top or the like, use the ps command.
'ps ax | grep -i <program_name>'
will print out all the PIDs associated with <program_name>. I found
that I use it enough -- and typing the | character sufficiently
awkward -- that I made an alias out of it:
"alias psgrep='ps ax | grep -i'".
> 2) At the moment I have Rhythmbox running on my Lucid desktop and I
> can't kill it. It does not appear in the list of running processes in
> top. Gnome System Monitor does list it, with a PID of 24384, shown as
> "uninterruptible." In Gnome System Monitor I right click on it and
> select "kill process," but it doesn't die.
It's quite possible that Rhythmbox spawns more than one process when
it runs. If that's the case, use the ps command to find them. Then
you can terminate all of them, with extreme prejudice. :-) It's also
possible that Rhythmbox is set up to respawn itself when it's killed.
Sort of like a videogame monster. In such a case, there should be
some sort of command line option, like "--kill", to stop it. At least
I would hope so.
> I know I can kill it if I restart the computer, but I shouldn't have
> to do that. So far I'm firing blanks. Any suggestions?
You can always do a Rhythmboxectomy: uninstall the monster and never
install it again. Then install and use a less annoying music player.
Hope this helps.
--Dale
--
Q: What's tan and black and looks great on a lawyer?
A: A doberman.
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