Is there some equivalent of 'task manager'?

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Re: Is there some equivalent of 'task manager'?

Post by gibbs1984 »

If it's just one particular program that freezes/crashes then you can use System Monitor (which you can find in the mintMenu) and kill the process, or like I do I have the Force Quit icon on my taskbar and use that to kill a program that crashes, this can be found by right clicking on the taskbar, Add to Panel and then selecting Force Quit.

If it's your whole computer that is crashing then I don't think these will be the best option as you'll probably have some other major issue that keeps making it crash.
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DataMan

Re: Is there some equivalent of 'task manager'?

Post by DataMan »

Or, from a command line approach:

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$ ps aux
To kill a process (the process id from the above) :

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$ kill -9 <process id inserted here>
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bobcollard

Re: Is there some equivalent of 'task manager'?

Post by bobcollard »

atyar wrote:Thanks for the info. In my case, neither the mouse nor the keyboard are responsive when it's freezing up. I was hoping there was some equivalent of a 'Ctrl-Alt-Delete' key combo, as there are times when Windows misbehaves that the 3-finger salute is the only was to kill an offending task.

Hmm......not sure what the problem could be :?

I've run the Linux update, so that's all up-to-speed. All I can think of from there is that it's something to do with multimedia apps - when I was on the net, I think I was testing watch instantly on Netflix with Firefox, or something to that effect. Before the movie even started playing, the pc froze.

In reality, all I really use this laptop for is Openoffice, email, and the internet, so Mint seems like a good choice for it, given the age of the platform (Thinkpad T40). Wish I could get it to work stable-like :mrgreen:
In Mint it's Ctrl/Alt/Esc then click your mouse button, Or, you could use another method if your mouse works. Look at the second option in this link:
http://wlmtips.com/2008/07/25/force-qui ... ux-friday/
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