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

[hackmiester]

[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?
> > >
> > >
>
> Thank You!
> Ankit Patel
>
>
>
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