2019年8月4日 · Xkill is a utility for forcing the X server to close connections to clients. This program is very dangerous, but is useful for aborting programs that have displayed undesired windows on a user's screen. If no resource identifier is given with -id, xkill will display a special cursor as a prompt for the user to select a window to be killed. If a ...

2014年9月25日 · The solutions you suggested, and those suggested by other commenters, all failed to work with the same speed or efficiency as the UNIX version of xkill. Even the version of xkill that's ported for windows exhibited freeze-ups of 8 to 10 seconds rather than the instant process kill that I was hoping for.

Xkill (or Alt+F4) will only terminate the connection of an application to the XServer. This may also kill the application but depending on the application it may also not. We should therefore not rely on xkill when we want to make sure an appliciation is terminated. –

2019年1月15日 · xkill if run in a "Run Command" dialog which appears after using Alt+F2 seems to occasionally don't actually execute the command and return "the cursor" instead of X (cross sign). I haven't found a bug report yet and still searching for it. As of now you can switch to "Wayland" and xkill seems to work normally under Wayland. To switch to ...

2019年1月20日 · Power users are familiar with a large range of X11-related utilities, like xkill, xrandr, xdotool, xsel. These tools won’t work under Wayland session, or will only work with XWayland applications but not Wayland applications. Some tools might have a replacement which allows to perform similar tasks. Thus, it's a well known issue.

2012年8月12日 · Kill : xkill -a. -a means it will kill all display instances. For more information run man xkill. Run : xinit. Also startx but this command is to start an instance and not the server itself. For more information run man xint and man startx. I don't believe it's possible to kill Xserver from GUI, and even if it were, it would not be the right ...

2016年10月5日 · The xkill utility works differently from the other answers - rather than closing the window or killing the process directly, it instructs the X server to disconnect the client that created the window. This normally has the effect of causing …

2021年11月30日 · Xkill is a utility program distributed with the X Window System that instructs the X server to forcefully terminate its connection to a client, thus "killing" the client.[1] When run with no command line arguments, the program displays a special cursor (usually a crosshair or a skull and crossbones) and displays a message such as

I ran xkill to force quit Chrome, and I clicked my desktop. The icons disappeared. Is there a command that will get them back? I'd rather not restart. I'm using GNOME and GDM.

There is already a tool called xkill which kills programs by clicking on a window, but it has no options to send a particular signal. This is a pity, because somewhat related command-line tools like kill have this option.