Comments on: Unfreezing Your Linux Desktop

By: Chady

Chady — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:46:52 +0000

Compiz has some issues on my system too sometimes.
It locks up the desktop, the mouse moves, but the keyboard doesn’t work and the desktop is frozen.
The course of action I take is to ssh in from another machine and kill/restart compiz.
You’re out of luck if you don’t have another machine on the same network though.

By: bob

bob — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:35:16 +0000

for i in `ps -ef | grep firefox | grep -v grep | awk ‘{ptint $2}’`; do kill $i; done

By: brodie

brodie — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:15:13 +0000

you are my hero. i’ve had issues in the past where the ctrl-alt-backspace doesn’t work and I can never remember the alt-sysrq combo. this is much easier, thank you

By: Mike Tyrell

Mike Tyrell — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 01:29:14 +0000

hey there I am a new user
cant you just type in terminal killall firefox-bin ?
it works for me

By: anon

anon — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:52:07 +0000

you can run pidof to get the pid of a program too -
pidof firefox

and if something won’t die you can run kill with the 9 option to make sure it’s killed -
kill -9 xxxx

the main difference between killall and using the pid is killall kills all running instances of the program

you can run xkill too and click on the program you want to kill. ctrl-c cancels it

pkill firefox will kill everything with firefox in the name, so if you can’t remember firefox-bin, but know it has firefox in the name you can use that, but you have to be careful incase you kill stuff you don’t want to!