How to kill a program?
In terminal
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ps auxc # to determine the PID (process ID) or process name
example...
PID name
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USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 0.0 205712 7904 ? Ss Jun17 0:05 systemd
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Jun17 0:00 kthreadd
root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< Jun17 0:00 kworker/0:0H
root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Jun17 0:01 ksoftirqd/0
root 7 0.1 0.0 0 0 ? S Jun17 2:57 rcu_sched
root 8 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Jun17 0:00 rcu_bh
root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Jun17 0:00 migration/0
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By process ID...
sudo kill -HUP PID # the nice way
sudo kill -9 PID # if -HUP doesn't work
or by process name...
sudo killall -HUP process_name # the nice way
sudo killall -9 process_name # if -HUP doesn't work
I usually do this:
- find the pid of application is having problems
ps - A | grep someTextToFind
Example: if your app is doubleCommander
ps -A | grep doubl
2727 ? 00:04:06 doublecmd
kill -9 2727
If in this way the program also is running.
click on dashboard, search System Monitor
- find your application
- click right botton
- Kill I hope this can help!