Im using Unity and some application is hanging up. A sub screen from the install printer program. As in I have no idea what program, window. In gnome, and mate, there is the force quit applet. I searched for it in the dash menu and nothing. How do unity users kill arbitrary crashed GUIs?
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3Usually I open a new terminal and use `xkill` – Salem Feb 18 '15 at 20:38
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try `sudo service lightdm restart` – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Feb 18 '15 at 21:01
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@Serg he wants to kill an application, not unity. – Tim Feb 18 '15 at 21:06
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xkill is best. open a terminal, run the command `xkill` and left click the problem. – Tim Feb 18 '15 at 21:07
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@Tim OK, gotcha. In that case , I'll suggest `pkill` – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Feb 18 '15 at 21:12
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Yeah xkill does eaxctly what i want. I can make an applet for it. I dont think this is the same question as how to kill an application. the windowing system doesn't necessarily have a name easily identified in the list. Graphically, I can see it, and I know which one it is. That is a MASSIVE leap from having to search for what thing is hanging up, and or which application by PID or name might be calling the hanging window. I think my question makes it clear typing a bunch of BS isn't what i want to do, I want to point and click kill. The linked reference has no mention of how to do that. – j0h Feb 19 '15 at 02:28