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Old 10-13-2003, 06:07 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Kids Need help closing certain programs

I was playing with the "toys" in SuSE 8.1 Pro, and alot of other things too... nd I noticed some programs you can't close them in the ussual fasion of either clicking the X at the top of the window, right clicking the program and click close, or right click the name of the program down on the taskbar and click close....

simple programs such as the one that puts a teddy bear on the screen and other foolish things...how do I close them?

Is there some kind of Linux equivilent of the Windows Task Manager?


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Old 10-14-2003, 03:28 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Try esc key or Ctrl-c or q
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Old 10-14-2003, 10:37 AM   #3 (permalink)
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I really don't know what kind of program you're talking about, some sort of bonzi buddy or something , you can always do an xkill to kill any X app. You can also use the ps command to display the current process that are running on the machine that is ps -ef | grep "numbre of program" then you can kill the process by typing kill PID#. Another way of killing an app is by doing the top command then hitting the "k" key and then entering the PID# of the process you wan to kill. Anyway if it's an app that uses X it's easier to just do an Xkill and click on it. Hope this helps .
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Old 10-14-2003, 04:18 PM   #4 (permalink)
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er...

No speakth Linux ... not yet though :P


so in english... I mean I haven't even used the console before (except once to set the password in Knoppix) so I have no idea wtf anything is...


sorry- I'm still going through the manual
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My bad , anyway what I wrote earlier are methods for killing a program or what in Windows is "ending a task" it's the same. So the easy way of killing a graphical application is by just opening a terminal and writing xkill and the hitting enter. This will basically execute the xkill program, which will tell you to click on the x client(graphical application) window you want to kill, simply alt+tab to the application and then click on it, by doing this you will Xterminate the app. Advice, do this only when clicking on the close button X doesn't work, and be carefull where you click when you execute xkill. Well I hope this helps and BTW welcome to Techimo. Once you get more experienced with Linux you can try the other two methods I suggested, by then you should feel that greping and piping is as natural as typing .
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