Sep 25, 2014 · 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 …

Aug 4, 2019 · 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 …

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 …

Jan 20, 2019 · 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 …

Jan 15, 2019 · 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 …

Nov 30, 2021 · 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 …

Aug 12, 2012 · 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 …

Oct 5, 2016 · 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 …

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 …