Kill running programs

[Fab]

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.

What kind of link does that for you? If it happens, it's most likely because the server doesn't set the proper mimetype and sends for instance a binary file as text/plain, which OWB would try to display, by default.

Fortunately, you can change that behaviour by going to OWB mimetype settings, and adding the extension/mimetype for the link, and set the action to download or ask (similar to ibrowse mimetype settings).

But anyway, OWB shouldn't crash while viewing plain text files (unless it's really really big and webkit runs out of memory, not even sure it would).

[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.