The death touch...

[Olivier Fourdan]

Rich,

xkill kills the X client, that may leave the process running behind,
depending on how well the app has been coded. So the answer is no, use
"kill" and you'll be safe.

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 00:23, Rich Shepard 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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