Fedora-core applications can't be killed fully from terminal !

hackmiester hackmiester at gmail.com
Wed Oct 5 22:55:36 UTC 2005


Yes - read my previous message:

>[hfuller at IBM-99-AFZ00 ~]$ xkill
>Select the window whose client you wish to kill with button 1....
>xkill:  killing creator of resource 0x2e00007
>
>Maybe something could be done with that resource #?

On 10/1/05, Ankit Patel <ankit644 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I used "resource id", which i got through "xrestop",
> to kill my application by "xkill -id" and got success.
> :)
> Now the problem is changed to find the resource id. I
> am pasting the output of "xrestop" here.
>
> <-------
> xrestop - Display: localhost:0
>           Monitoring 30 clients. XErrors: 1
>           Pixmaps:   10923K total, Other:      94K
> total, All:   11017K total
>
> res-base Wins  GCs Fnts Pxms Misc   Pxm mem  Other
> Total   PID Identifier
> 2a00000     0    0    0    1    0     3072K      0B
> 3072K   ?   <unknown>
> 2800000    96   69    1  183   82     2010K      6K
> 2017K   ?   Yahoo! Mail - ankit644 at yahoo.com - Mozilla
> Firefox
> 1c00000    26   55    0    3   32      768K      2K
> 770K  4156 wnck-applet
> 3000000    80   77    0    6   21      410K      4K
> 415K   ?
> \u0aaa\uffff\uffff~G\uffff\uffff~U\uffff\uffff~G\uffff\uffff~\\u0aa8\uffff\uffff~@
> \u0ab5\uffff\uffff~M\u0aaf\u0ab5\u0ab8\uffff\uffff~M\u0aa5\u0abe
> 1000000    12   47    1    2  729      384K     19K
> 403K  2870 metacity
> 3400000    42   60    1   22   26      397K      4K
> 401K   ?
> \u0aa8\uffff\uffff~G\uffff\uffff~_\u0ab5\u0ab0\uffff\uffff~M\uffff\uffff~U
> \u0ab0\uffff\uffff~A\u0aaa\u0ab0\uffff\uffff~G\uffff\uffff~V\u0abe\uffff\uffff~B\uffff\uffff~U
> 2c00000    18   57    1    4   38      393K      3K
> 397K   ?   ankit at dhcp37-96:~
> 3800000    21   56    1    4   19      393K      3K
> 396K   ?   Hardware Browser
> 1200000   179   57    1    7   38      388K      7K
> 395K  4156 Bottom Panel
> 1600000    56   64    1    7  110      386K      6K
> 392K  2876
> \u0aa1\uffff\uffff~E\u0ab8\uffff\uffff~M\uffff\uffff~U\uffff\uffff~_\uffff\uffff~K\u0aaa
> 0a00000    37   70    1    2   19      384K      3K
> 387K  2821 scim-panel-gtk
> 1e00000     7   46    0    2   12      384K      1K
> 385K  4156 gnome-im-switcher-applet
> 2e00000     2    7    1    2   10      384K      1K
> 385K 18075 system-config-packages
> 2200000     5   42    0    2    7      384K      1K
> 385K  4156 mixer_applet2
> 1a00000     4   42    0    2    8      384K      1K
> 385K  4156 Authentication Indicator
> 0600000     2    6    0    2    9      384K    408B
> 384K  2755 gnome-session
> 2600000    11   48    0    7    4       15K      1K
>  16K  4156 multiload-applet-2
> 0e00000     1    1    0    0  639        0B     15K
>  15K   ?   screensaver
> 0200000     0    1    1    0   39        0B      1K
>   1K   ?   <unknown>
> 0c00000     3    1    0    0   58        0B      1K
>   1K  2832 gnome-settings-daemon
> 3c00000     3    1    1    0   13        0B      1K
>   1K   ?   <unknown>
> 2400000    11   42    0    1    6        4B      1K
>   1K  4156 notification-area-applet
> 2000000     6   42    0    1    7        4B      1K
>   1K  4156 clock-applet
> 1400000     4   41    0    1    5        4B      1K
>   1K  2878 gnome-volume-manager
> 1800000     3   41    0    1    3        4B      1K
>   1K  2884 eggcups
> 3600000     2    1    0    0    3        0B    144B
> 144B 18174 hwbrowser
> 3200000     2    1    0    0    3        0B    144B
> 144B 18089 system-config-network
> 0800000     2    1    0    0    1        0B     96B
>  96B   ?   <unknown>
> 3a00000     1    1    0    0    0        0B     48B
>  48B   ?   xrestop
> 0400000     0    1    0    0    0        0B     24B
>  24B   ?   <unknown>
> -----------!>
>
> Actually here it's showing localized name of the
> application (because it's running in Gujarati here).
> So if i don't know the language then i am not able to
> find the resource id when many applications runnning.
>
> So, is there any other way to get a resource id from
> console?
>
> I know my problem is now changed but...! :)
>
> Thank You!
> Ankit Patel
>
> --- hackmiester <hackmiester at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > [hfuller at IBM-99-AFZ00 ~]$ xkill
> > Select the window whose client you wish to kill with
> > button 1....
> > xkill:  killing creator of resource 0x2e00007
> >
> > Maybe something could be done with that resource #?
> >
> > On 9/30/05, Ankit Patel <ankit644 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > Alex,
> > >
> > > Thanks for your reply,
> > >
> > > I know about xkill, but i don't want to interact
> > my
> > > GUI (Mouse) to kill any application. If i want to
> > use
> > > Mouse then i can kill application by directly
> > clicking
> > > on the close button.
> > >
> > > The thing is i want to kill application fully from
> > > console without any interaction.
> > >
> > > --- Alex Catullo <freelance0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Did you try xkill?
> > > > Run it in a seperate terminal as a normal user.
> > > >
> > > > -Alex Catullo
> > > >
> > > > On 9/30/05, Ankit Patel <ankit644 at yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > > I have run the "hwbrowser" from the menu. Then
> > i
> > > > tried
> > > > > to kill hwbrowser from terminal.
> > > > >
> > > > > 1.kill pid_of_hwbrowser
> > > > >
> > > > > --> This command kills only binary (hwbrowser)
> > run
> > > > by
> > > > > the normal user, not the main application
> > because
> > > > > there are many (3) processes running along
> > with
> > > > > hwbrowser. and they are.
> > > > >
> > > > > [ankit at ankit ~]$ ps -aux | grep hwbrowser
> > > > > Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See
> > > > > /usr/share/doc/procps-3.2.3/FAQ
> > > > > ankit     6355  1.0  1.5 18460 8108 pts/2    S
> > > > > 12:38   0:00 hwbrowser
> > > > > root      6356  0.0  0.2  7472 1396 pts/2    S
> > > > > 12:38   0:00 /usr/sbin/userhelper -w hwbrowser
> > > > > root      6360  0.0  0.1  6772  952 pts/2    S
> > > > > 12:38   0:00 /bin/sh
> > > > /usr/share/hwbrowser/hwbrowser
> > > > > root      6361  8.1  3.3 28276 16976 pts/2   S
> > > > > 12:38   0:01 /usr/bin/python
> > > > > /usr/share/hwbrowser/DeviceList.py
> > > > > ankit     6370  0.0  0.1  5816  660 pts/2
> > R+
> > > > > 12:39   0:00 grep hwbrowser
> > > > > [ankit at ankit ~]$
> > > > >
> > > > > 2. So, i thought i need to kill all other
> > > > processes
> > > > > also along with hwbrowser. So,
> > > > >
> > > > > [ankit at ankit ~]$ killall -g hwbrowser
> > > > > [1]+  Terminated              hwbrowser
> > > > > [ankit at ankit ~]$ ps -aux | grep hwbrowser
> > > > > Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See
> > > > > /usr/share/doc/procps-3.2.3/FAQ
> > > > > root      6360  0.0  0.1  6772  952 pts/2    S
> > > > > 12:38   0:00 /bin/sh
> > > > /usr/share/hwbrowser/hwbrowser
> > > > > root      6361  1.2  3.3 28276 16976 pts/2   S
> > > > > 12:38   0:01 /usr/bin/python
> > > > > /usr/share/hwbrowser/DeviceList.py
> > > > > ankit     6373  0.0  0.1  4652  656 pts/2
> > R+
> > > > > 12:40   0:00 grep hwbrowser
> > > > >
> > > > > Still gui of hwbrowser running.
> > > > > If you have run hwbrowser from Menu (gui) then
> > -->
> > > > All
> > > > > other gui applications closed and gnome-panel
> > > > > restarted.
> > > > > If you have run hwbrowser from same terminal
> > > > (console)
> > > > > then --> Other gui applications and
> > gnome-panel
> > > > will
> > > > > not get affected.
> > > > >
> > > > > 3. So, finally i thought i need to be root to
> > kill
> > > > all
> > > > > the instances of hwbrowser. And,
> > > > >
> > > > > [root at ankit ~]# ps -aux | grep hwbrowser
> > > > > Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See
> > > > > /usr/share/doc/procps-3.2.3/FAQ
> > > > > root      6412  0.0  0.1  4656  668 pts/2
> > S+
> > > > > 12:47   0:00 grep hwbrowser
> > > > > [root at ankit ~]#
> > > > >
> > > > > Now hwbrowser killed fully...
> > > > > If you have run hwbrowser from Menu (gui) then
> > -->
> > > > All
> > > > > other gui applications closed and gnome-panel
> > > > > restarted.
> > > > > If you have run hwbrowser from same terminal
> > > > (console)
> > > > > then --> Other gui applications and
> > gnome-panel
> > > > will
> > > > > not get affected.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > This is not specific to hwbrowser only but
> > most of
> > > > the
> > > > > applications created in python included in
> > > > fedora-core
> > > > > software.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > So, i want to know is there any solution to
> > kill
> > > > > hwbrowser(which have been running from
> > Menu(gui)
> > > > not
> > > > > from the same terminal) without affecting
> > other
> > > > > applications?
>
>
>
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