The death touch...

[hugh d fegely]

the difference as I can figure it is xkill will kill the "window" process that is displayed on your GUI desktop... it won't necessarily kill the actual process though..

I have found when my xmms locks up, when I had the kjofol skins active, xkill would kill the X-process and clear up my desktop, but xmms itself would still be running in the background, and I'd have to still kill (killall -9 xmms) to clean up the hidden processes.

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On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 15:23:20 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> 
> > "xkill" kills X clients, using X protocol, "kill" kills processes.
> 
> Olivier,
> 
>   Many thanks. I read the xkill man page but I don't understand what the
> difference is, in practice.
> 
>   Now and then I get a process stuck -- particularly OpenOffice.org;
> occasionally something else. I just kill the process to clear it up. Is
> xkill more efficient? Easier? Cleaner?
> 
>   Just trying to understand the differences.
> 
> Rich
> 
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