Window won't go away

[Kam Leo]

On 6/26/07, Bob Goodwin - W2BOD <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> > Nigel Henry wrote:
> >> On Tuesday 26 June 2007 18:24, Mike McCarty wrote:
> >>
> >>> Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Or try pressing CTRL+ALT+ESC (or whatever combination is set in
> >>>> your GUI
> >>>> to kill programs) and then click the application with the skull
> >>>> cursor.
> >>>
> >>> How do I find out what that may be? CTRL-ALT-ESC seemingly does nothing
> >>> on my computer.
> >>>
> >>> Mike
> >>
> >>
> >> I havn't used CTRL + ALT + ESC for ages, and had forgotten all about
> >> it. It does work ok, but its a case of CTRL + ALT, and then a tap on
> >> the ESC key,
> >
> > It does nothing on my computer except to cause the current window
> > to lose focus, and a highlighted line appears around the screen.
> > No change to the cursor. Nothing happens if I click on a terminal
> > window while the screen is highlighted.
> >
> > Mike
> Does "xkill" work from the command line?
>
> It always does for me, I never knew of CTR+ALT+ESC until today.
>
> Bob Goodwin

Can't you open a terminal, run top, and kill the process?