Re: Killing an X window app

[ABrady <xunil kc rr com>]

On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 23:52:28 -0500
David Kramer <david thekramers net> wrote:

> Long ago, there used to be this X Windows application where you
> started it, and the next window you clicked on would be killed.  Is
> that still around?  I can't find it.  

You're looking for xkill. There's also a key sequence I believe (I use
IceWM, so the same keys don't apply). But xkill is WM-independent.

> I'm using Red Hat 7.3 with KDE 3.04[0], and every once in a while I go
> to some page in Konqueror that freezes up when rendering.  Sometimes I
> even get that "I am using a Microsoft O/S and I'm running out of GDI
> so when I drag an application it leaves a trail of window images in
> it's path" effect, which I don't think should happen in any case.
> 
> My system is about 94% idle, I have about 11MB RAM free and about 250M
> swap free.  It's not starved for resources.
> 
> Now, since the process behind the window appears to have died, I can't
> kill the process.  I have moved the window to another virtual desktop,
> but there must be a way to make it gone.  alt-f4, file/close, and
> clicking on the X decoration all are about as effective as complaining
> about the weather.
> 
> There is nothing in /var/log/messages (as much as I can tell wading
> through all the "Packet deny" lines for port 137).
> 
> 
> [0] As a side question, I did an rpm -q kdebase to verify this, and I
> see that I have 
> [root uni mail]# rpm -q kdebase
> kdebase-3.0.0-12
> kdebase-3.0.3-0.7
> kdebase-3.0.4-0.73.1

I didn't think kdebase was one of them, but I have installed multiple
things for other binaries that existed quite well and installed without
complaining about the others being there. Everything generally ran just
fine afterward, though I usually had to pass the proper prefix for
locations when compiling things.

> I always do either rpm -Uvh or rpm -Fvh.  How could I have the older
> ones installed?  Can I safely remove them?

I don't know why it did that, and I don't know which could be safely
removed. I would assume the higher-numbered ones, but since they prolly
shouldn't have installed together anyway, I'd want to see what I have
for others and see what else I might be able to get rid of.

Of course, one could be surprised (as has happened to me on other
things) by getting rid of something lower-numbered, and taking out
everything else related and finding that nothing works when it's over.
Not typical, but not out of the question either.

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