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Pieter

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One minute tip: quick application termination
« on: November 27, 2007, 02:10:06 PM »
Disclaimer: I actually copied this text verbatim from my blog. I always hate it when people post their own blog entries on Digg or forums, but I thought that this tip was worth sharing.
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Reason #264 why you'd love Ubuntu: quick application termination



Ubuntu allows you to quickly terminate unresponsive applications with the press of a button. Just create a shortcut to 'killall processname' and you're all set up. Popular uses of this little feature include killing Firefox ('killall firefox-bin') and making all command line media players shut up ('killall mplayer').

If you don't know the process name of the application you want to set up a kill switch for, look for it in GNOME's task manager. You can find it in the System menu or if you prefer the quick and dirty method, run 'gnome-system-monitor'.
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Ryan Wagner

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Re: One minute tip: quick application termination
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2007, 09:27:38 PM »
You can make a shortcut that will kill applications? How ingenious is that!  O0
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Re: One minute tip: quick application termination
« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2008, 04:04:00 PM »
I tried Ubuntu, never again, none of my important software that works in conjunction with the hardware worked.  So gave up as I needed the flexibility especially from my printer.

tony
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