Busy cursor in KDE... How to i kill the application stalling my system?

[SKYLINEGTR33MWJ]

When i load my profile using KDE 3.1.1 the system loads fine.... but after KDE loads, the mouse cursor is in the "BUSY" state.

This happened after i changed some settings under "style and window decoration" along with some icons

KDE appears to be Busy and stalls..... is there any way to reset the defaults to remove the busy cursor or open a program to monitor and identify the program that is stalling the system..... and KILL that application?

any help is appreciated

[paul9]

ps -A will show all processes. try this from a different console if you can't open xterm or another graphical shell (use ctrl alt f2 for convenience, ctrl alt f6 or ctrl alt f7 should put you back into your x session (windowed gui)) kill -9 xxxx where xxxx is the pid (process id number) of what you want to shut down. this will kill child processes of what you kill. for example, someapp has three separate windows on your screen, input, output and config. kill -9 someapp's pid and all three windows die.you can only kill if you own the process, unless you are root, whcih is not something to take lightly.do not worry about logging in twice or more as the same user, this is allowed by linux and similar systems. if you CAN open other stuff in your x session, then xkill will give you a kill cursor. hold this over a window or whatever and click. this will kill that windows process. you can easily kill your taskbar, so be careful. can't remember where kde stores it's per user settings, it may be /home/username/Desktop or therabouts. it will be a hidden file, one that is preceeded by a period such as /home/username/Desktop/.kde/.kdeconfig

[S.D.Willie]

ps -a gives me this :

[br@localhost br]$ ps -a
PID TTY TIME CMD
2237 pts/0 00:00:00 ps
[br@localhost br]$

not much info but if youre running kde then do a ctrl esc and it will show you all running processes and you could kill what you need to or think might be causing the problem.

if you go into control center under " look and feel" for just about every choice there is a 'restore default" setting at the bottom. hope that helps.

SD

[samwichse]

Just type "top" at a console (do the CTRL+ALT+F2 thing as suggested above). It's pretty self-explanitory (if you do something unintended it will warn you etc).

Sam

[CMonster]

the busy cursor itself is under the KDE setting "Look and Feel/Launch Feedback"

[nukes]

Sometimes it can stay on the busy cursor if the program being started isn't a KDE program, and doesn't report back that its started. The cursor may stay that way for like 20 seconds or something. I don't think this is the problem you have though, as you say it stalls KDE.
KDE stores its user settings in 2 directories: ~/.kde and ~/.kde3.1