Mike McCarty Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Marc wrote:
Can you go to the taskbar and right click and close it that way? I ran into that with k3b the other day, and that was the only way I could close it as well.
I tried that, and it didn't work. Nothing I tried would make that window go away. All I could get was the "Window is not responding" dialogue box.
Try xkill. Read the man page for more information.
Cheers, Dave
Em Ter 26 Jun 2007, David G. Miller escreveu:
Mike McCarty Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Marc wrote:
Can you go to the taskbar and right click and close it that way? I ran into that with k3b the other day, and that was the only way I could close it as well.
I tried that, and it didn't work. Nothing I tried would make that window go away. All I could get was the "Window is not responding" dialogue box.
Try xkill. Read the man page for more information.
Or try pressing CTRL+ALT+ESC (or whatever combination is set in your GUI to kill programs) and then click the application with the skull cursor.
[]'s Marcelo
Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
Or try pressing CTRL+ALT+ESC (or whatever combination is set in your GUI to kill programs) and then click the application with the skull cursor.
How do I find out what that may be? CTRL-ALT-ESC seemingly does nothing on my computer.
Mike
On Tuesday 26 June 2007 18:24, Mike McCarty wrote:
Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
Or try pressing CTRL+ALT+ESC (or whatever combination is set in your GUI to kill programs) and then click the application with the skull cursor.
How do I find out what that may be? CTRL-ALT-ESC seemingly does nothing on my computer.
Mike
I havn't used CTRL + ALT + ESC for ages, and had forgotten all about it. It does work ok, but its a case of CTRL + ALT, and then a tap on the ESC key, and the skull should appear on your mouse pointer. Make sure the pointer is on the top of the window you want to kill, and a single left click kills the window like magic. Warning!!! Dont click the pointer if it's on a blank bit of desktop, otherwise your likely to kill the desktop. I've done that. Doh.
Nigel.
Nigel Henry wrote:
On Tuesday 26 June 2007 18:24, Mike McCarty wrote:
Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
Or try pressing CTRL+ALT+ESC (or whatever combination is set in your GUI to kill programs) and then click the application with the skull cursor.
How do I find out what that may be? CTRL-ALT-ESC seemingly does nothing on my computer.
Mike
I havn't used CTRL + ALT + ESC for ages, and had forgotten all about it. It does work ok, but its a case of CTRL + ALT, and then a tap on the ESC key, and the skull should appear on your mouse pointer. Make sure the pointer is on the top of the window you want to kill, and a single left click kills the window like magic. Warning!!! Dont click the pointer if it's on a blank bit of desktop, otherwise your likely to kill the desktop. I've done that. Doh.
Nigel.
It works well enough but - Then if I decide I don't really want to kill anything how do I get rid of the skull? I had to search for something to sacrifice!
Bob Goodwin
Konstantin Svist wrote:
press ESC again :)
It works well enough but - Then if I decide I don't really want to kill anything how do I get rid of the skull? I had to search for something to sacrifice!
Bob Goodwin
No, ESC doesn't kill "kill." Not on this FC6 box anyway.
Once invoked it has to kill something it seems!
Bob Goodwin
Bob Goodwin - W2BOD wrote:
Konstantin Svist wrote:
press ESC again :)
It works well enough but - Then if I decide I don't really want to kill anything how do I get rid of the skull? I had to search for something to sacrifice!
Bob Goodwin
No, ESC doesn't kill "kill." Not on this FC6 box anyway.
Once invoked it has to kill something it seems!
Bob Goodwin
It *does* disappear on my FC6 install.
Sounds like you've got a psychopath killer on your box :)
Konstantin Svist wrote:
Bob Goodwin - W2BOD wrote:
Konstantin Svist wrote:
press ESC again :)
It works well enough but - Then if I decide I don't really want to kill anything how do I get rid of the skull? I had to search for something to sacrifice!
Bob Goodwin
No, ESC doesn't kill "kill." Not on this FC6 box anyway.
Once invoked it has to kill something it seems!
Bob Goodwin
It *does* disappear on my FC6 install.
Sounds like you've got a psychopath killer on your box :)
I use XFCE instead of Gnome or KDE so perhaps that makes a difference?
I've tried numerous times and can't stop kill! It's not something I often need to do, usually if I invoke kill it's for a particular app. and I'm desparate to get rid of it.
Bob
On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 14:56 -0700, Alan M. Evans wrote:
On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 13:46 -0400, Bob Goodwin - W2BOD wrote:
No, ESC doesn't kill "kill." Not on this FC6 box anyway.
Once invoked it has to kill something it seems!
ESC didn't work for me either, but left-click did.
Sorry, RIGHT click. Duh.
Alan M. Evans wrote:
On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 14:56 -0700, Alan M. Evans wrote:
On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 13:46 -0400, Bob Goodwin - W2BOD wrote:
No, ESC doesn't kill "kill." Not on this FC6 box anyway.
Once invoked it has to kill something it seems!
ESC didn't work for me either, but left-click did.
Sorry, RIGHT click. Duh.
Yes, that does it! Now why didn't I try that?
Bob
On Tuesday 26 June 2007 19:07, Bob Goodwin - W2BOD wrote:
Nigel Henry wrote:
On Tuesday 26 June 2007 18:24, Mike McCarty wrote:
Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
Or try pressing CTRL+ALT+ESC (or whatever combination is set in your GUI to kill programs) and then click the application with the skull cursor.
How do I find out what that may be? CTRL-ALT-ESC seemingly does nothing on my computer.
Mike
I havn't used CTRL + ALT + ESC for ages, and had forgotten all about it. It does work ok, but its a case of CTRL + ALT, and then a tap on the ESC key, and the skull should appear on your mouse pointer. Make sure the pointer is on the top of the window you want to kill, and a single left click kills the window like magic. Warning!!! Dont click the pointer if it's on a blank bit of desktop, otherwise your likely to kill the desktop. I've done that. Doh.
Nigel.
It works well enough but - Then if I decide I don't really want to kill anything how do I get rid of the skull? I had to search for something to sacrifice!
Bob Goodwin
That goes into the area of premeditated killing, like think before you commit yourself. Seriously though, I just tried this on Kubuntu. You have the skull placed on the window you were going to kill, but change your mind. Do a CTRL+ALT, and this time hold down the ESC key, and the skull will flash, and when you let go the keys the skull is gone.
That's the way I observe it anyway.
Nigel.
On Tuesday 26 June 2007, Nigel Henry wrote:
On Tuesday 26 June 2007 19:07, Bob Goodwin - W2BOD wrote:
Nigel Henry wrote:
On Tuesday 26 June 2007 18:24, Mike McCarty wrote:
Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
Or try pressing CTRL+ALT+ESC (or whatever combination is set in your GUI to kill programs) and then click the application with the skull cursor.
How do I find out what that may be? CTRL-ALT-ESC seemingly does nothing on my computer.
Mike
I havn't used CTRL + ALT + ESC for ages, and had forgotten all about it. It does work ok, but its a case of CTRL + ALT, and then a tap on the ESC key, and the skull should appear on your mouse pointer. Make sure the pointer is on the top of the window you want to kill, and a single left click kills the window like magic. Warning!!! Dont click the pointer if it's on a blank bit of desktop, otherwise your likely to kill the desktop. I've done that. Doh.
Nigel.
It works well enough but - Then if I decide I don't really want to kill anything how do I get rid of the skull? I had to search for something to sacrifice!
Bob Goodwin
That goes into the area of premeditated killing, like think before you commit yourself. Seriously though, I just tried this on Kubuntu. You have the skull placed on the window you were going to kill, but change your mind. Do a CTRL+ALT, and this time hold down the ESC key, and the skull will flash, and when you let go the keys the skull is gone.
That's the way I observe it anyway.
Nigel.
It works that way on this FC6 box, the 2nd ctl+alt & esc reverts the pointer to normal.
Nigel Henry wrote:
On Tuesday 26 June 2007 18:24, Mike McCarty wrote:
Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
Or try pressing CTRL+ALT+ESC (or whatever combination is set in your GUI to kill programs) and then click the application with the skull cursor.
How do I find out what that may be? CTRL-ALT-ESC seemingly does nothing on my computer.
Mike
I havn't used CTRL + ALT + ESC for ages, and had forgotten all about it. It does work ok, but its a case of CTRL + ALT, and then a tap on the ESC key,
It does nothing on my computer except to cause the current window to lose focus, and a highlighted line appears around the screen. No change to the cursor. Nothing happens if I click on a terminal window while the screen is highlighted.
Mike
Mike McCarty wrote:
Nigel Henry wrote:
On Tuesday 26 June 2007 18:24, Mike McCarty wrote:
Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
Or try pressing CTRL+ALT+ESC (or whatever combination is set in your GUI to kill programs) and then click the application with the skull cursor.
How do I find out what that may be? CTRL-ALT-ESC seemingly does nothing on my computer.
Mike
I havn't used CTRL + ALT + ESC for ages, and had forgotten all about it. It does work ok, but its a case of CTRL + ALT, and then a tap on the ESC key,
It does nothing on my computer except to cause the current window to lose focus, and a highlighted line appears around the screen. No change to the cursor. Nothing happens if I click on a terminal window while the screen is highlighted.
Mike
Does "xkill" work from the command line?
It always does for me, I never knew of CTR+ALT+ESC until today.
Bob Goodwin
On 6/26/07, Bob Goodwin - W2BOD bobgoodwin@wildblue.net wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
Nigel Henry wrote:
On Tuesday 26 June 2007 18:24, Mike McCarty wrote:
Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
Or try pressing CTRL+ALT+ESC (or whatever combination is set in your GUI to kill programs) and then click the application with the skull cursor.
How do I find out what that may be? CTRL-ALT-ESC seemingly does nothing on my computer.
Mike
I havn't used CTRL + ALT + ESC for ages, and had forgotten all about it. It does work ok, but its a case of CTRL + ALT, and then a tap on the ESC key,
It does nothing on my computer except to cause the current window to lose focus, and a highlighted line appears around the screen. No change to the cursor. Nothing happens if I click on a terminal window while the screen is highlighted.
Mike
Does "xkill" work from the command line?
It always does for me, I never knew of CTR+ALT+ESC until today.
Bob Goodwin
Can't you open a terminal, run top, and kill the process?
Kam Leo wrote:
Can't you open a terminal, run top, and kill the process?
There was no process associated with the window.
Mike
Bob Goodwin - W2BOD wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
It does nothing on my computer except to cause the current window to lose focus, and a highlighted line appears around the screen. No change to the cursor. Nothing happens if I click on a terminal window while the screen is highlighted.
Mike
Does "xkill" work from the command line?
It always does for me, I never knew of CTR+ALT+ESC until today.
I have a man entry for it. I haven't tried using it. CTRL-ALT-ESC does light up the screen boundary. If I press another ESC while holding down the CTRL-ALT it lights up the task bar. Another ESC toggles between the screen and the task bar. Clicking on a terminal window while this is active does nothing except set the mouse focus to the window, AFAICT.
I just tried xkill. I started up a terminal window, and did a ps. Then I started another terminal window, and ran xkill with no argument. A special cursor, like a square with a nested square turned 45 degrees appeared. I placed it over the first terminal window, and clicked. Both terminal windows disappeared.
Since the windows overlapped, I tried again with non-overlapping windows. Same thing. It killed both windows.
Mike
Mike McCarty wrote:
[in re xkill]
I have a man entry for it. I haven't tried using it. CTRL-ALT-ESC does light up the screen boundary. If I press another ESC while holding down the CTRL-ALT it lights up the task bar. Another ESC toggles between the screen and the task bar. Clicking on a terminal window while this is active does nothing except set the mouse focus to the window, AFAICT.
I just tried xkill. I started up a terminal window, and did a ps. Then I started another terminal window, and ran xkill with no argument. A special cursor, like a square with a nested square turned 45 degrees appeared. I placed it over the first terminal window, and clicked. Both terminal windows disappeared.
Since the windows overlapped, I tried again with non-overlapping windows. Same thing. It killed both windows.
Hmm, xkill killed EVERY TERMINAL WINDOW IN EVERY WORKSPACE. I had to restart my browser proxy as a result.
Mike
Em Ter 26 Jun 2007, Mike McCarty escreveu:
Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
Or try pressing CTRL+ALT+ESC (or whatever combination is set in your GUI to kill programs) and then click the application with the skull cursor.
How do I find out what that may be? CTRL-ALT-ESC seemingly does nothing on my computer.
Here in KDE, I go to Control Center -> Regional & Accessibility -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> Shortcut schemes -> Global shortcuts -> Miscellaneous -> Kill Window. The names in the above path may be slightly different, as I'm translating from Portuguese.
[]'s Marcelo
Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
Em Ter 26 Jun 2007, Mike McCarty escreveu:
How do I find out what that may be? CTRL-ALT-ESC seemingly does nothing on my computer.
Here in KDE, I go to Control Center -> Regional & Accessibility -> Keyboard
Thanks for the reply. I use GNOME.
Mike
On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 10:41 -0300, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
Or try pressing CTRL+ALT+ESC (or whatever combination is set in your GUI to kill programs) and then click the application with the skull cursor.
Does nothing here (using Gnome). What window manager do you use?
Em Ter 26 Jun 2007, Tim escreveu:
On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 10:41 -0300, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
Or try pressing CTRL+ALT+ESC (or whatever combination is set in your GUI to kill programs) and then click the application with the skull cursor.
Does nothing here (using Gnome). What window manager do you use?
kwin/KDE. But I think this is xorg's related, not window manager/GUI specific. Maybe you have a different shortcut configured in your machine.
[]'s Marcelo
David G. Miller wrote:
Try xkill. Read the man page for more information.
Thanks. I'll try that next time. Unfortunately I've had to reboot and that window no longer exists.
Mike