Kill running programs

[kolla]

But if they are pubscreens, then it's hardly "their own screen"

[XDelusion]

Shogo does not use MUI. It is in it's own screen. I can't click on it from the desktop obviously.

[Fab]

Shogo does not use MUI. It is in it's own screen. I can't click on it from the desktop obviously.

Ikill can also use an argument when used from shell: the task name. Not sure it's particularly handy, though.

There's also "freeze" command, to freeze and unfreeze a task from shell. And finally, you can also freeze tasks with scout, and once related tasks are frozen, you can in theory hope to close related screens/windows manually without trouble.

[XDelusion]

EDIT: Never mind, I catch your meaning now.

Does iKill have docs somewhere?

[Golem!dk]

EDIT: Never mind, I catch your meaning now.

Does iKill have docs somewhere?

Not AFAIK, but from a users viewpoint the operation is fairly simple, I think the "i" in the name stands for intuition, so getting rid of intuition windows + related tasks is pretty much what it does. The single argument you can give it on the command line is a taskname, you can use the TaskList command to see current task states. There is no safe way to reclaim resources from dead tasks, so once you've saved whatever you're working on you should probably consider rebooting.

[XDelusion]

Tasklist, the secret command I needed to make sense of all this. Thank you!

[AmigaHeretic]

So how does one kill a program that will not close and is hogging up memory?

OWB does this sometimes when you try to download a file and it tries to load it as a web page instead.

I use this on 3.9 with pretty good success.  Some things crash pretty bad and when you try to kill them the system reboots.

http://aminet.net/package/util/misc/Murderer

Have know idea how/if it would work on MorphOS.

[XDelusion]

Seems to take a little while to load on MorphOS, but it does indeed load.

Will give it a go next time I have a crash seeing as it has a GUI, otherwise I will just have to resort to the command line method.