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Clicked on the link thinking it was about another Vim clone, but this gave me quite the laugh! I love over-built solutions to slight annoyances. I would seriou
by metrokoi 6y ago
Clicked on the link thinking it was about another Vim clone, but this gave me quite the laugh! I love over-built solutions to slight annoyances.
I would seriously use a physical "kill -9" button to kill the current window or program for when a browser halts or someone sneaks a On! function into your code.
- th0114nd 6y agoYou should check out xkill, which transforms the mouse into the window killing button
- gerdesj 6y agoIt turns the cursor into a little skull and crossbones. I remember using it quite often 20+ years ago, not so much these days.
- mynegation 6y agoYeah, last time I used it was in 1996 on AIX running on IBM RT PC.
- gerdesj 6y agoI gave it a go today and it's now red 8)
- tinus_hn 6y agoThat just tells the server to remove the window and break the process. If it’s really stuck it’ll keep spinning in the background.
- badsectoracula 6y agoA few years ago i wrote xkeyller[0] which kills any foreground window (well, the process that owns it) when you press Ctrl+Alt+K. I wrote it partly for games that take over X and then hang themselves and partly as an argument on Reddit towards someone that was saying X cannot do that and you need Wayland for it :-P [0] http://runtimeterror.com/tools/xkeyller http://runtimeterror.com/tools/xkeyller
- JNRowe 6y agoJust a heads up: Your "download source" link is for a .tar.bz2, but the file is compressed with xz and not bzip2.
- badsectoracula 6y agoThanks, i made this archive ages ago and probably did a mistake back then. I fixed it.