How to kill (stop) a blocked (non-responding) app on Librem 5?

Hardware Librem 5
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I had a blocking app (nemo file manager) on my new Librem 5.

How can I kill the running app?

I tried to swipe it to the top as one does it to close running apps but the app did reappear after a second (“spawning” from the top back into the app carousel where it was before).

How can I kill an blocking app?

Edit Sorry for extending the question but I was asking for a GUI (“convenience”) solution (kill does work of course)

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You can probably kill it from the terminal:

killall nemo

or

sudo killall nemo
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What about this this?

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Could you post which link from the search is the one you mean? Search results will differ depending on time and on browser settings.

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In addition, because sometimes processes could not respond to it, you can add the ‘-s 9’ option to the killall command, to try and force kill the process

killall -s 9 nemo

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killall nemo

yes, good old kill(all :slight_smile:

This will work but I forgot to ask for GUI way of doing it (eg. a swipe)…

BTW: How could I find out the process name of the app (may it be different?)?

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For the name equivalences, you can check out the directory /usr/share/applications
In each .desktop files, there is ‘Name=’ (what you see) and ‘Exec=’ (what is launched)

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Would be possible using gnome-system-monitor but it seems to be not adaptive so far. Is it pre-installed on Librem 5? :thinking:

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Just kill it via gnome-usage. It has a force-quit action.

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Excellent answer, there is a “force quit” question if you click on a process and the process name seems to be the app name. The process list can be filtered easily. THX!

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This is a candidate for L5 users wiki.

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Looks like someone did add it to the Tips & Tricks Community Wiki. :+1:

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