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From: Colin B. on 2 Jun 2010 12:38 Nasser M. Abbasi <nma(a)12000.org> wrote: > coming from windows to linux, I find that I miss the task-manager tool > on windows. > > I am running fedora 13, and I like the linux tools below the desktop > (shell commands) and all the other command line development tools, and > that is the main reason I am moving to linux. > > But I am finding that sometimes some desktop applications hangs and > something goes wrong. On windows, when this happens, I start the > task-manager, find the process or the application, and kill it. > > For example, now I have firefox froze on me on fedora, I was in the > middle of saving a page as web page. > > I know I can use ps -a, find the process id, and use kill, but sometimes > that does not kill the process, and now when I did ps -a, it did not > even list firefox > > ps -a | grep -i firefox > > even thought I started it, and I can see it there froze on the desktop. Try ps -ef or ps -A instead. It should show up there. Also, top is useful for showing processes. Colin
From: Frank Steinmetzger on 2 Jun 2010 18:36
Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: > On 06/01/2010 02:59 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: >> Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: >> >>> coming from windows to linux, I find that I miss the task-manager tool >>> on windows. >>> [...] >>> But I am finding that sometimes some desktop applications hangs and >>> something goes wrong. On windows, when this happens, I start the >>> task-manager, find the process or the application, and kill it. >> >> In KDE, press Ctrl+Esc, in Gnome, you can add your own shortcut via >> settings->Shortcuts to open gnome-monitor. > > Thanks Frank. I looked, called "system monitor" under system tools, in > fedora 13. > > When the desktop froze on me earlier, I could not use it, as everything > froze, had to reboot. But good to know now that such a tool exist. Actually, there is a much neater feature which nobody has mentioned yet (I think it comes directly from X, so it even might work if no program seems to respond): Press the combination Ctrl+Alt+Esc. Then your mouse pointer becomes a skull or X, and if you click on a window with it, you kill its process instantly. It's only for one window though, clicking on the desktop area won't kill your X server. Well, in KDE, it kills the plasma-desktop *g*, I don't know about Gnome. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Der kommt den Göttern am nächsten, der auch dann schweigen kann, wenn er im Recht ist. (Cato) |