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frostman
Asked: 2016-08-03 07:47:18 +0800 CST

How to close IntelliJ IDEA if it hung? [duplicate]

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I can't close the IntelliJ IDEA when it hangs, how can I close it from the terminal?

P.S.: I think this question is different from "How to kill a unresponsive program from terminal?" because IntelliJ's process has name just 'java' so you can't really tell it apart by its name.

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    It's running as a java process so you can use

    killall java -9

    (Warning! This command kills all java processes)

    Source: Intellij support forum

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  2. You can list all processes with

    ps aux

    and you can search processes with

    pgrep <process name>

    Then you can kill the process you want with 

    sudo kill -KILL <pid>

    You can read more about it here

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