>From command line try the following: pkill -9 thunar
You could also try xkill This will change the cursor to a skull and cross bones. Hover over Thunar and click. It will kill it and all its process. (Be careful don't click on the desktop) On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 10:54 AM, John R. Sowden <[email protected]> wrote: > I tried to open a text file (a foxpro source file with a .prg extension). > The default option was thunar, not mousepad. I got the pointer with the > circle indicating that its was doing something. After about a minute, I > opened the file with mousepad, read it and closed it. The circling/pointer > is still there. I ran top in a term, saw thunar at the top. got the PID, > killed it, said invalid pid. Then I noticed in top that thunar was jumping > arround AND the pid was changing. This is new for me. I still have the > circling pointer. How do I close this process and possibly, how do I keep > this from happening again? xubuntu ver 16.04 LTS > > John > > > -- > xubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailm > an/listinfo/xubuntu-users > -- Luke Van Dervoort Life is short, Love someone ... LLAP
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