Kill, must kill!

[Liviu Andronic]

On 10/27/07, Kok, Auke <sofar at foo-projects.org> wrote:
> Grant McWilliams wrote:
> > I too would like a real kill from the desktop.
>
> alt-f2 -> "xkill" -> point-and-shoot

As mentioned earlier, "xkill" is not a perfect substitute to "kill".
The only thing that xkill does is cut the connection from the X
server. After the window is closed, the process can perfectly keep
running and consuming ~100% of your CPU. In specific cases this can be
aggravating, and an "xfce4-taskmanager" or "kill PID" in Terminal is
needed. The latter two are quite awkward and time-consuming solutions.

Regards,
Liviu