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September 02, 2009

Killing processes in linux

I have a laptop running Ubuntu 9.04. Recently Lotus Notes was installed on it. Notes seems to become unstable some times. The instability is so bad that I can't close the program in the normal way (mouse-click the 'x' button in the upper right corner. I would have to run

ps ax | grep notes

to get the process id and then run

sudo kill -9 *procId*

to kill it.

Tyler, a coworker, pointed out to me that I could add 'Force Quit' to the panel at the top. When you press that you can just click on a misbehaving window to kill it.

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