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Rami Dabain
Asked: 2012-10-05 04:57:47 +0800 CST

how to kill an app started by `quickly run`

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I am building an app and it hangs on some thread . how can i kill that app ?

tried ctrl+c but it didn't work (the icon stays in the notification area)

thanks

quickly

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Try to kill it via the process list:

    Process List

    Or - if you want to be more nerdy - kill it via the console, using $>top

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  2. If you know the name of your process, grep against ps to get the PID (process ID). Example: If I wanted to stop shotwell, I would do this (from a terminal session):

    $ ps -ef | grep shotwell
xaap001   1779  1139  8 08:08 ?        00:00:01 shotwell
xaap001   1792  1703  0 08:08 pts/1    00:00:00 grep --color=auto shotwell

    The first process listed is the one I want (in this example), and the first number listed is the PID. You can also see that the command I just ran is listed in there, too.

    Now that I have my PID (1779), I can stop the process with this command:

    $ kill -9 1779
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  3. I suggest that you enter 

    Cntl-z

    That will suspend the process and tell you its job number.

    then:

    kill -9 %1

    if its job number is 1. After you press enter the first time it will mention that [1] is stopped. The next time you press enter it will tell you it is killed or terminated.

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