On Thursday 27 September 2007 13:27, NoOp wrote: > On 09/26/2007 05:55 PM, James Knott wrote: > > Charlie Seaman wrote: > >> I was thinking of Windows, also, which is what I use, and I guess I > >> was following on what John Meyer said. > >> > >> Based on James Knott's info on Linux it would seem that this type of > >> issue should not occur on Linux. If it did it seems that it might be > >> one of the *RARE* occurrences that might need a reboot. But, what > >> would need to be done before you took that route on Linux? > > > > There are a few ways of killing something in Linux. There's the kill or > > killall commands. On the desktop, press CTL-ALT-ESC, which changes the > > cursor to a skull and crossbones, you then click on the offending app. > > You can log out and back in etc. > > Depends on your distro. That key combination doesn't work for me unless > I program it in. For an Ubuntu GUI kill app,
It's window manager dependent in fact. Ctrl+alt+esc to kill an app is a KDE function. It doesn't work in Gnome which is Ubuntu's standard window manager >simply right-click on a > panel (top or bottom), click "Add to Panel", scroll down to Desktop & > Windows, click on "Force Quit", then click the "Add" button. You'll then > find a nice icon on the panel that you can use to easily kill an app > when it misbehaves. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Graham Lauder, INGOTs Assessor Trainer Moderator New Zealand (International Grades in Office Technologies) www.theingots.org.nz OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
