6 Different Ways To End Unresponsive Programs In Linux

“Dealing with Linux Unresponsiveness – Using System
Monitor

“First and foremost you can use the familiar System Monitor
tool. It looks a lot like the Windows Task manager, only it is
better. Not only does it provide you with lots of information about
the current state of the computer system, you can use the Processes
tab to look for any misbehaving applications and choose to Kill or
Stop the process. Both of these operations are very different in
the Linux world: stop suspends the execution of the process and
kill would close it completely.

“Using the ‘kill’ command

“So far so good, however there are times when you cannot use the
GUI altogether. Starting the System Monitor is out of question in
such situations. In these situations, you can leverage the power of
Linux command line to your advantage. You can enter these commands
in a terminal if it is available or you can switch to a virtual
terminal using Ctrl + Alt + F1 and logging in using the text
mode.”

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