How to kill htop if I can't use F10?

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I use htop in a terminal but I can't close it with F10. F10 seems to just open a program's File dialog. Is there a way to disable it so I can close htop normally?

score 46 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 02 '15 at 04:27

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TL;DR The standard way to quit htop is F10 or q.

Therefore if you can't use F10, use q (lowercase).

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Note that this is a lower-case `q`, not a capital one. – Lekensteyn Jul 01 '15 at 15:38

score 38 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 12 '20 at 14:37

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You always can have the interupt signal keys Ctrl+c.

Basically Ctrl+c sends the SIGINT (interrupt) signal, ; by default, this causes the process to terminate.

Just like top, htop can be quit by pressing Q.

SIGINT

The SIGINT signal is sent to a process by its controlling terminal when a user wishes to interrupt the process. This is typically initiated by pressing Control-C, but on some systems, the "delete" character or "break" key can be used

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answered Jul 01 '15 at 10:57

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If you exit `htop` with Ctrl+C (SIGINT), `htop` will exit with a failure status (status code 1) and will not save any settings (like the sort column, etc.). – Léo Lam Jul 02 '15 at 12:13

score 19 · Answer 3 · edited Oct 30 '21 at 08:34

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If you are using gnome-terminal, yes, you can disable that the F10 key opens the menu:

Open gnome-terminal's menu with F10 or with the mouse and go to Preferences. In the General section and disable the Enable the menu accelerator key (F10 by default) option.

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This is not a gnome-terminal issue. F10 seems to do the same annoying thing for any program and there doesn't even seem to be a shortcut registered in the Gnome shortcut settings :( – Pithikos Jul 02 '15 at 10:55
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Solution worked for me. As of Ubuntu 18.04 setting was in Edit > Preferences > General – Den Kasyanov Apr 03 '20 at 13:37

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 01 '15 at 23:26

All sorts of other options apart from q.

Open another terminal and kill it from there.
Kill it from the System Monitor task list.
Close the terminal window.

These assume a desktop environment.

Also for servers...

Ctrl-Alt-F1 (or F6/F7) and log in again to kill.
Connect again (Telnet/SSH) and kill.

And finally - it is open source, patch it.

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 21 '20 at 16:55

If you're interested in making F10 (and other shortucts) available in general to terminal applications and you're using XFCE terminal, go to Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Shortcuts and check the appropriate boxes to disable the keys. I have them all checked so that Emacs (m-f) and htop (F10) will work.

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