On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 11:15, Ed Skinner wrote:
> Use xkill:
> 1) Launch a shell,
> 2) Type "xkill" (and press return),
> 3) Then "touch" (left mouse button) the X-window you want to kill.
> I think of this as the "finger of death" technique and have found it *VERY* 
> effective when some X program seems to get stuck.
> 
> On Friday 09 January 2004 10:57, J wrote:
> > expanded version
> > Try "kill -9" on root console. Of course you have to type in the PID
> > number.
> >
> > > On occasion I've had a program freeze (mostly it's xine). I haven't been
> > > able to kill the program when this happens.
> > > I've tried restarting X, all that does is remove the applications
> > > interface from my screen. `ps -ax` still shows it as running.
> > > I've tried `kill` and that has no effect.
> > > So my question is how do you kill a process when `kill` doesn't work?
> > > Thx,
> > > Bart


Thanks guys.

`kill -9 pid` did the trick.

Isn't `xkill` the same as right clicking the window list icon in the
task bar (gnome) and selecting close. I remember a few versions back it
used to say "kill" instead of "close".

Bart