Swiftfox vs Firefox

[heylookitsmewow]

Re: Swiftfox vs Firefox

I installed Swiftfox and it works good except I still have an occasional crash, it will either disappear or lock up until I X out of it. I thought Linux wasn't supposed to do stuff like that.

[Azmo]

Re: Swiftfox vs Firefox

An application crashing is an application crashing - has nothing to do with Linux at all.

Probably you don't have to logout out of your X session tho, killing the process from a console should do the job.

[heylookitsmewow]

Re: Swiftfox vs Firefox

I don't mean log out of the X session I mean clicking on the X on Swiftfox to close the program. But either way how do you kill a process from a console?

[Azmo]

Re: Swiftfox vs Firefox

Ah okay, didn't get that right then. 8)

For the kill from the console you need the PID (Process ID) of the process, so try something like this:

ps -u <youruser> | grep <processname>

to get the ID and then

kill -<signal> ID

to kill the process. The default signal is TERM for terminate, which usually doesn't work tho when the process is completely inresponsive. To have the system force shutdown the process use the -9 (KILL SIGKILL) signal, e.g.

kill -9 12345

If you want to kill all processes of a certain application, you could also use the killall command, which takes a processname (like 'swiftfox') as argument, e.g.

killall -9 swiftfox

[SheeEttin]

Re: Swiftfox vs Firefox

I don't hear anybody swearing by Swiftfox yet.

I do now.

[askrieger]

Re: Swiftfox vs Firefox

@HLIMW: There is a way to kill a locked up program from the GUI without going to the konsole and getting the pid, etc. Just type "Ctl-Alt-Esc"(all at once). Your mouse cursor will turn into a cute skull and crossbones which you then position in the window of the misbehaving program and left click. Problem solved!

[penguin.ch]

Re: Swiftfox vs Firefox

Ctl-Alt-Esc

XKill is back ... cool

[askrieger]

Re: Swiftfox vs Firefox

I didn't know that it had ever gone away!

[penguin.ch]

Re: Swiftfox vs Firefox

I didn't know that it had ever gone away!

At least I've had to manually add it to several systems ...

[askrieger]

Re: Swiftfox vs Firefox

I just checked. It's in section "miscellaneous-graphical", "priority-optional". I don't remember adding it by hand, but perhaps, I did.

[penguin.ch]

Re: Swiftfox vs Firefox

I don't remember adding it by hand, but perhaps, I did.

You didn't, I daresay - although out of the box the shortcut only works on "Edgy" and "Gutsy", it seems to be installed by default on both as well as on "Feisty".

Add.: in my previous post, I was reffering to Suse 8.x/9.x, Kanotix 2005/2006 and the like ... even in Debian 4.0 KDE, the skull is lurking (altough without shortcut as well).