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theringmaster

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From: Air Force

Registered: 2007-07-16

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I need force quit now

I hate when firefox freezes and never wants to leave. How can I setup force quit (like ubuntu has) so I don't have to suffer with freezing windows anymore.

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FizDev

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From: Canada

Registered: 2007-06-29

Posts: 57

Re: I need force quit now

xkill? :S

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: I need force quit now

At prompt "killall firefox-bin"

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theringmaster

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From: Air Force

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Re: I need force quit now

At prompt "killall firefox-bin"

no that's not what i mean. when firefox goes down, the computer gets unresponsive so opening a terminal would take forever if at all. I mean that when i hit the "x" and nothing happens, a dialog box comes along and says 'suchandsuch program is NOT responding. Would you like to terminate it's process?' Does anyone know what i mean? I think force quit is apart of the gnome-desktop because there is an applet that does this too.

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theringmaster

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Re: I need force quit now

xkill? :S

wait a minute. maybe this is what i need. What package provides it?

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Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: I need force quit now

OK - I thing I remember this from when I had Ubuntu installed on a spare computer a year or so ago.  No idea what program that was though...

What are you doing in firefox that causes that much trouble   I can always open the terminal to kill it if necessary...

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Klepto

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From: Scotland

Registered: 2007-11-12

Posts: 41

Re: I need force quit now

wait a minute. maybe this is what i need. What package provides it?

Ctrl+alt+esc, then click on the window.

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Jerry

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From: Philippines

Registered: 2007-09-14

Posts: 126

Re: I need force quit now

kill pid 7869

the number should be the process number of firefox, you should give what your comp assigned to firefox.

you could tell by using the top command.

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Registered: 2006-11-26

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Re: I need force quit now

pkill firefox-bin

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szym

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Registered: 2007-11-16

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Re: I need force quit now

wait a minute. maybe this is what i need. What package provides it?

Ctrl+alt+esc, then click on the window.

Thanks! I just learned something new today! Very useful.

theringmaster

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From: Air Force

Registered: 2007-07-16

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Re: I need force quit now

wait a minute. maybe this is what i need. What package provides it?

Ctrl+alt+esc, then click on the window.

doesn't work for me.

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Thrillhouse

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From: Arlington, VA, USA

Registered: 2007-05-29

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Re: I need force quit now

CTRL+ALT+ESC is a KDE thing only, I believe.

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theringmaster

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From: Air Force

Registered: 2007-07-16

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Re: I need force quit now

here's something that will maybe refresh your memory of what I'm talking about. See how they said "sudo apt-get install xkill", I too need to install SOMETHING to get kill functionality.

https://answers.launchpad.net/gnome-pan … stion/5116

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dolby

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From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

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Re: I need force quit now

killall -9 firefox will kill it every time

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FizDev

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From: Canada

Registered: 2007-06-29

Posts: 57

Re: I need force quit now

here's something that will maybe refresh your memory of what I'm talking about. See how they said "sudo apt-get install xkill", I too need to install SOMETHING to get kill functionality.

I believe it comes with Xorg so... you should already have it. Simply bind it to a keyboard shortcut.

Phrodo_00

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From: Seattle, WA

Registered: 2006-04-09

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Re: I need force quit now

No idea what program that was though...

it is metacity, by what I can see you're using kde, so that's why it doesn't appear
(to have the ctrl-alt-esc thing in gnome just bind that to xkill in gconf)

pauldonnelly

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Registered: 2006-06-19

Posts: 776

Re: I need force quit now

For some reason, xkill leaves the firefox-bin process hanging around. pkill -9 firefox-bin is the only way to go when it locks up on me.

kishd

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Registered: 2006-06-14

Posts: 401

Re: I need force quit now

Phrodo_OO i use kde and when any program hangs the force_quit dialog pops up.

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From: NJ, USA

Registered: 2007-08-04

Posts: 620

Re: I need force quit now

Alt-SysRq-K ....

No, really.  If a program is freezing, X (and everything on that entire VT) need to be taught a lesson.

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FizDev

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From: Canada

Registered: 2007-06-29

Posts: 57

Re: I need force quit now

Alt-SysRq-K ....

No, really.  If a program is freezing, X (and everything on that entire VT) need to be taught a lesson.

Note : If anybody wants to use this, you'll have to enable it first. To do this, edit the /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq and change the 0 by a 1!

If there is no file named sysrq in this folder, then it isn't enabled in your kernel.

buttons

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From: NJ, USA

Registered: 2007-08-04

Posts: 620

Re: I need force quit now

Alt-SysRq-K ....

No, really.  If a program is freezing, X (and everything on that entire VT) need to be taught a lesson.

Note : If anybody wants to use this, you'll have to enable it first. To do this, edit the /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq and change the 0 by a 1!

If there is no file named sysrq in this folder, then it isn't enabled in your kernel.

Or just compile your own kernel and select Kernel Debugging->Magic SysRq key.

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iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

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Re: I need force quit now

Or better, enable it in /etc/sysctl.conf where Arch has it disabled by default.

Susu

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From: Germany

Registered: 2005-11-11

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Re: I need force quit now

Sorry, where IS xkill?

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kakTuZ

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From: Hannover, Germany

Registered: 2007-10-20

Posts: 86

Re: I need force quit now

Sorry, where IS xkill?

it is in the 'xorg-apps' package

theringmaster

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From: Air Force

Registered: 2007-07-16

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Re: I need force quit now

Sorry, where IS xkill?

it is in the 'xorg-apps' package

that's exactly what i wanted thanks much!!

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