Your Question: How Do I Close a Running Program in Ubuntu Terminal?
Contents You Could Also Just Run the Xkill Command — You Could Open a Terminal Window, Type Xkill Without the Quotes, and Press Enter. Or, You Could Press a...
You could also just run the xkill command — you could open a Terminal window, type xkill without the quotes, and press Enter. Or, you could press a shortcut like Alt+F2, which opens the “Run Command” dialog on Ubuntu’s Unity desktop and many others. Type xkill into the dialog and press Enter.
How do you exit a program in Linux terminal?
How do you exit a program in Linux terminal? if you do ctrl-z and then type exit it will close background applications. Ctrl+Q is another good way to kill the application. If you don’t have control of your shell, simply hitting ctrl + C should stop the process.
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How do I close apps in Ubuntu?
Also a quick hot key combination using GUI method works with my Ubuntu 14.04 (xfce) just press Ctrl + Alt + Esc and an xkill cursor should appear, just click on an application to kill.
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