show all running processes

[irish66]

Hi. is there a keyboard shortcut to show list of all running processess. ie what ctrl alt delete does in windows xp.
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[handydan918]

Hi. is there a keyboard shortcut to show list of all running processess. ie what ctrl alt delete does in windows xp.
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In a terminal window, you can enter

top

or

ps aux

Just idle curiosity, or is there a reason for your query?

[bswilson]

Hi. is there a keyboard shortcut to show list of all running processess. ie what ctrl alt delete does in windows xp.
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See the other replies about top and ps, but I believe you could assign a keyboard combination to launch the System Monitor application, which is somewhat similar to the Windows Task Manager.

Here are two good articles (1,2) on how to do that.

[irish66]

Wow. talk about quick responses. Yep, it was related to ldc++ running. but not showing on screen. I wanted to use an "end task" option.
Those commands you gave me seem to be to show running processess in text form. I guess what i really want is to be able to stop a program running.
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[binbash]

ps aux | grep programname
kill pidnumber

[irish66]

Thanks everybody
so bin, if i wanted to kill firefox, would it be
ps aux | grep firefox
kill pidnumber

[binbash]

Thanks everybody
so bin, if i wanted to kill firefox, would it be
ps aux | grep firefox
kill pidnumber

Sample :

xxxx@ubuntu:~/compiz/stackswitch$ ps aux | grep firefox
xxxx 18215 11.5 5.2 277244 108540 ? Sl 03:20 2:38 /usr/lib/firefox-3.1b2pre/firefox-3.1

kill 18215 or sudo kill 18215

you may need sudo at some programs

[irish66]

Thank you. That seems like a lot of writing though.
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[irish66]

actually system moniter is fine. Thank you.Mr wilson.
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[bswilson]

actually system moniter is fine. Thank you.Mr wilson.
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My pleasure! We're here to help you as best we can.