elementary OS

Dedicated Kill Application keyboard Shortcut

Bug #1380451 reported by Ezra Sharp
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Bug Description

This is easy on Mac, Cmd + Q will instantly kill pretty much anything you;re working on.

But there seems to be no consistent key for that in elementary?

If an app stops responding eventually a popup might display giving you the option to force quit the app, but I find that's really random when it chooses to appear.

Sometimes you need an option to quit something really fast weather it has or hasn't stopped responding.

Something that works inside fullscreen apps etc. For instance the Alt + F4 key works for most desktop apps, but not inside of the TreeWorlds Fullscreen game app.

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swizzle (el-ferreira-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I agree as there is no task manager pre-installed at least a keyboard shortcut for killing unresponsive applications would be very useful.

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Jason Anderson (ertain) wrote :

What I use is "xkill". If you want you can map that to a button combination.

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Ezra Sharp (nicekiwi) wrote : Re: [Bug 1380451] [NEW] Dedicated Kill Application keyboard Shortcut

Exactly, but under the eOS idealology that command should just exist and be
there, no one should have to explicitly set it up.

In linux you can set it up as you like, but in eOS you shouldn't have to.
When a user gets trapped in an app they don't think "oh, I need to create
my own key binding to xkill" they think "this is crap and broken and
annoying".

On Wednesday, 15 October 2014, Jason Anderson <email address hidden> wrote:

> What I use is "xkill". If you want you can map that to a button
> combination.
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Sun Shiranui (happymaskmac)
Changed in elementaryos:
status: New → Confirmed
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