How to close a hung aplication in Linux

Rightardia has written several articles about Linux and its advantages over Microsoft Windows. It's bad enough that the operating system costs more than $100.

If you install Windows 7, you will also have to upgrade Microsoft Office, your anti-virus software, Adobe Acrobat, your CD/DVD burning software and other applications and utilities.

One of the major technical technical sites recently estimated the updates to Windows XP Pro applications would cost another $900 for upgrades after Windows 7 was installed.

One of the shortfalls in Linux is that there is no simple way to close a hung application without rebooting. However, we recently found a utility called CompWizConfig Settings manager that installs in Preferences.

It has a configuration option called Crash Handler that allows a user to close a hung application. The easiest way to install Crash Handler. You can use the Add to Panel Option to install a Force Quit button to the menu bars at the top or bottom of the desktop screen.

All the user has to do is click on the Force Quit and then click on the hung application to close it. The Help screen below provide more information on this feature.

Finally Linux users have a simple way to close a hung application that is analogous tho the <ctrl>-<alt>-<del>  keys in Microsoft Windows.

If readers know of other ways to close an application in Linux, please leave us a comment.

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