Ubuntu – How to kill applications

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I have been playing around with Ubuntu installing new themes and and docks. Sometimes during the installation, whole screen just hangs. What is the best way in Ubuntu to Kill a process/application? Anything similar to Ctrl + Alt + Del of windows?

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In System->Admin you have an application called System Monitor, this is the equivalent of the windows task manager.

Edit: for later versions of Ubuntu (writing this on a PC running 13.10), you will find the system monitor through the dash (top left). Just type system monitor or parts of it in the dash and look for the System Monitor application..

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My favorite way to do that is

Ctrl+Alt+F1

Then when you're logged back in run ps aux | grep program keep in mind that program should be replaced with the filename of the executable. In your case ps aux | grep wine, then you should see something like this:

david     1234  0.0  0.0 1595676 2700 ?        Sl   16:12   0:00 wine cmd.exe

Where it says cmd.exe yours will be the exe of your game. To kill the process

kill 1234 1234 being the Process ID that the previous command gave you; then Ctrl+Alt+F7

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