Best way to kill zombified settings (or anything else)

Hardware Librem 5
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Soooo, my settings in L5 have frozen a few times. Zombified. Will not close. Swipe up… only to see it inevitably fall down again. So far, as the name of the process/app is difficult to find (partly due to using small touch keyboard in a hurry), I haven’t found a convenient way to kill zombies. Not a big deal, just a quick question.

The Usage app is pretty useless to identify processes (and killing root stuff - forget it… and for some reason there is no graph for network usage and thermal can’t be seen with the other usage indicators… but I degress). Commandline is it, isn’t it…? Has anyone figured any shortcuts to do this (seek and destroy) efficiently on the small screen?

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You might try GNOME System Monitor to see running processes and terminate them.

By “zombified,” are you talking specifically about minimized apps that won’t close/swipe away?

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Yes, those are zombies to me. I tried System Monitor and it has better listing but it’s not L5 friendly - no context menu and does not fit to screen. It does have “End prosess” button but without the menu, no “Kill” and I’m not sure end will be sufficient - didn’t get a chance to try yet. It would be nice if Gnome System Monitor and Usage could be made into one usable app instead of what they are now.

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From terminal with psmisc package installed; killall gnome-control-center

psmisc was installed in my system already

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It’s funny how difficult things seem, when you can’t use the method that’s basically musclememory. Have to consider making that a desktop shortcut.

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It doesn’t fit well initially, but you can make it adapt:

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