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sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > ctrl-alt-F2 will usually take you to tty2 where you can
> > kill the process tying up tty1.
> 
> Alt-F2 works if you are in text mode, doesn't it?

Yes, but I suspect he is in X.  CTRL-ALT-F2 works in both
CLI and X.
 
> I get this problem frequently - please explain again how 
> to kill a process.  It was something like kill `pidof` 

That works if you know the precise name of the process.
For example:  
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kill `pidof icewm`
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However, I usually just do: ps
This lists all running processes by number.  Then I kill it
by number.  For example, if the problem process is 73:
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kill 73
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Sometimes a process refuses to die and you have to kill 
it with extreme prejudice:
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kill -9  73
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> Do I first type 'top' to get the number of the process, 
> for instance 123, and they type kill 

ps is quicker.  


Cheers,
Steven