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Super easy
Sudo rm -rf /*
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I thought that removes the French language pack?
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Oui
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yeah it probably does
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No, that's rm -fr /*
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Pedant time: That actually wouldn’t kill any process that’s already loaded in memory and running. Unless the process attempts to access something else from the filesystem and crashes.
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It's easy. Just open up a terminal and type
kill $PID(Replace the $PID with the process id of the process) if you don't know the process id you can do
killall process_nameIf these don't work you can add a
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Also please refresh my memory on how to find the process ID
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You can do
ps aux | grep -i <part of process name>and the PID is in the second column of the output. However for this use case I recommend a process manager like htop or btop
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htop or any process monitor will tell you.
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top for Ubuntu at least will show you the top processes, I think sorted by averaged CPU usage.
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Pidof
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You probably want to get on the habit of using pkill instead of killall in case you're ever on a different system. You could have a surprise.
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Uninterruptible sleep makes this harder than it looks
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Kid named process:
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I remember that kid! She was friends with that boy named Sue, right? Both of them always hanging out with little Bobby tables?
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xkill (assuming GUI and not headless/remote)
xkill lets you click on any X application, at which point it will close the X server connection. In most cases the client application will self-terminate at the loss of the X connection. It's wonderfully straightforward.
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True, xkill is super easy to use. Who needs a task manager, if you can just click on the program you want to close.
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KWin has this shortcut (Ctrl + Win + Esc) that turns your cursor into a skull that kills the windows you click on
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For me its Ctrl+Alt+Esc that does it, Ctrl+Meta+Esc just highlights where my mouse cursor is.
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Could be a distro related difference ^^
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Does it work on Wayland?
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Yes, in Wayland it's built into kwin.
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It does work for me at least
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pkill
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pkill
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I usually just scream into my keyboard
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pkill <pID>
Or what I prefer:
pkill -f <process/programm name>
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Just open htop, find the process you wish to kill. Press F9,9,enter.
Done task killed
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ps -e | grep app kill id
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immediately subscribed lol
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at least on GNOME you can just open the system monitor and use it like task manager
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htop is how I usually send signals. TUIs are fun!
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Uh, I'm not a cool terminal god, I just know how to use vim, so xkill is my way.
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I use the terminal on a daily basis. My job involves writing software for terminals.
Ctrl+Meta+Esc in KDE is still how I kill a misbehaving graphical app.
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sudo init 0
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I prefer matricide: sudo kill -9 1
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btop
