I've lived without the dock for a long long time now. At first I moved the dock out of the directory as described above and used windowshade too to hide windows. The only problem though is the dock has to be running in order to change or set your background. So I had to write a shell script to launch and then kill the dock just to set the.
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It always makes users feel anxious when the Mac program is not responding to the order, users had to wait for the program restore response or directly kill its process. Most users are accustomed to use a way to kill Mac program processes, however, there still are many other ways helping users quickly kill Mac program process.
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So, what do you do on a Mac when a process (as opposed to an application) is hogging CPU, swamping your machine, and you need to kill it?
I know you can use
top or open “Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor” and kill it from there.
But what happens when the process is already using so much CPU that doing either of those tasks is impossible?
On Windows, you can just do ctrl+alt+delete and the process list will reliably open. So no matter how much your computer is thrashing, you always have access to the list of processes.
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On Mac OS, there’s cmd+alt+escape, which reliably shows running applications. Fine when it’s an application causing the problem. But: what do you do if it’s a process?
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Based on your desire to kill an individual process, I'm assuming that you are ok with a solution at the Terminal. The Terminal is pretty light so should be responsive even if your system is swamped, or if you're logging in via ssh.
Beyond the basic
kill command, which kills processes via their pid (which you'd need to get from either a ps command, or the Activity monitor), a neat trick at the terminal is the killall command, which allows you to kill a process by name rather than pid.
For example, if you know the name of your process is
my-prog-0 or whatever, you can go to the terminal and do:
There are a number of good options (see
man killall for more info):
One thing to note about OS X is that some system processes will be automatically restarted if they are killed by the dtlussierdtlussier
launchd daemon (I think??). For example, if the Dock is not responsive you can do a killall Dock and it will restart automatically.
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Force Quit is the alternative to Task Manager on Mac. It's fast, efficient, and kills applications really fast.
You can access this feature through two ways.
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Try the following command in terminal to list and search for process using a regex:-
ps gx | grep 'Symantec'
The above example is to list all the 'Symantec' related processes. Replace 'Symantec' with your own phrase. Next use variations of 'kill' command. You can either use:-
kill pid
Replace 'pid' with actual process id. Or use,
killall
as suggested before. To reiterate another useful suggestion, use
man kill
to see the manual for 'kill' command and also scroll down and see related commands which is mentioned under, 'SEE ALSO' section.
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The is no process killing keyboard shorcut, only for running applications. The only way to kill processes is through Activity Monitor or through Terminal using UNIX commands.
Madison SMadison S
Go to activity monitor, find the dock and highlight it. Hit the kill button (Stopsign with X in it, top left).
Force Quit is used for simple applications, while the activity monitor can be used to kill processes.
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Use Activity Monitor to find the Process you want to killLook at the PIDUsing Terminal type Kill PID number and then return.
This assumes you have admin or sudu access
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