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

[Ankit Patel]

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?


Thank You!
Ankit Patel


		
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