New Page in Ubuntu Help on How to Quit A Hung Application

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)
I get this problem quite frequently but only when using Firefox. I've not
tried Chrome or other web-browser.  Killing Firefox frees up the rest of
the desktop.  So i keep a terminal console open and usually have an ssh
session from a tablet.  On those command-lines i try to have;

pkill firefox

already ready so i only need to press enter in order to kill firefox.

A few releases before Unity there used to be a cross-hair icon on the
panel/taskbar and clicking on it make the mouse arrow into a gun-sight.
Then clicking on any open window killed that app/program/document.  It was
kinda fun to use even when not really needed.

Regards from a Tom :)







On Sun, 23 Jun 2019 at 00:01, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com>
wrote:

> Hi Vincent,
>
> Thanks for your suggestion.
>
> On 2019-06-15 19:33, Vincent Alexander wrote:
> > Dear Ubuntu Documentation Team,
> >
> > I think that it would be a good idea to add a new page to the Ubuntu
> > Desktop Documentation, possibly under the "Tips & Tricks" section,
> > detailing how to quit a hung or frozen application. I am aware that
> > the manual for the System Monitor already details how to do this...
> > but I don't think that a new user may even know that the System
> > Monitor application exists - much less that it is the proper tool for
> > the job they want to do (quit a frozen or hung application).
>
> Hmm.. For me, when an application hangs, the whole desktop usually
> freezes. In those cases it's not possible to just kill the process.
>
> > This new page could be titled "Quitting a hung or frozen application"
> > and contain a link to the proper help page under System Monitor.
> > Sample text could be something like this: "On the rare occasion that
> > an application on your Ubuntu system becomes hung or frozen, you may
> > need to force it to quit. The 'System Monitor' (this text would be a
> > link to the help page for System Monitor) application may be used to
> > quit applications that have become unresponsive and thus cannot be
> > closed using the usual method."
>
> Nowadays, when the Ubuntu desktop uses the GNOME shell, most of Ubuntu
> Help actually consists of the upstream GNOME Help. More specifically
> Ubuntu Help is made up of these three packages:
>
> - gnome-user-docs
> - gnome-getting-started-docs
> - ubuntu-docs
>
> The latter, which the Ubuntu documentation team maintains, can be seen
> as a 'plugin' which adds some pages and replaces a few gnome-user-docs
> pages to make them fit Ubuntu better. The "Tips & tricks" section is
> 100% from gnome-user-docs.
>
> So I would suggest that you post your idea to the gnome-user-docs
> maintainers:
>
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-user-docs/issues
>
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