.\" $Xorg: xkill.man,v 1.4 2001/02/09 02:05:54 xorgcvs Exp $ .\" Copyright 1988, 1998 The Open Group .\" .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its .\" documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that .\" the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that .\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting .\" documentation. .\" .\" The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included .\" in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. .\" .\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS .\" OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF .\" MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. .\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE OPEN GROUP BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR .\" OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, .\" ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR .\" OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. .\" .\" Except as contained in this notice, the name of The Open Group shall .\" not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or .\" other dealings in this Software without prior written authorization .\" from The Open Group. .\" .\" $XFree86: xc/programs/xkill/xkill.man,v 1.9 2003/09/18 19:01:33 herrb Exp $ .\" .TH XKILL 1 __xorgversion__ .SH NAME xkill - kill a client by its X resource .SH SYNOPSIS .B "xkill" [\-display \fIdisplayname\fP] [\-id \fIresource\fP] [\-button number] [\-frame] [\-all] .SH DESCRIPTION .PP .I Xkill is a utility for forcing the X server to close connections to clients. This program is very dangerous, but is useful for aborting programs that have displayed undesired windows on a user's screen. If no resource identifier is given with \fI-id\fP, \fIxkill\fP will display a special cursor as a prompt for the user to select a window to be killed. If a pointer button is pressed over a non-root window, the server will close its connection to the client that created the window. .SH OPTIONS .TP 8 .B \-display \fIdisplayname\fP This option specifies the name of the X server to contact. .TP 8 .B \-id \fIresource\fP This option specifies the X identifier for the resource whose creator is to be aborted. If no resource is specified, \fIxkill\fP will display a special cursor with which you should select a window to be kill. .TP 8 .B \-button \fInumber\fP This option specifies the number of pointer button that should be used in selecting a window to kill. If the word "any" is specified, any button on the pointer may be used. By default, the first button in the pointer map (which is usually the leftmost button) is used. .TP 8 .B \-all This option indicates that all clients with top-level windows on the screen should be killed. \fIXkill\fP will ask you to select the root window with each of the currently defined buttons to give you several chances to abort. Use of this option is highly discouraged. .TP 8 .B \-frame This option indicates that xkill should ignore the standard conventions for finding top-level client windows (which are typically nested inside a window manager window), and simply believe that you want to kill direct children of the root. .SH CAVEATS This command does not provide any warranty that the application whose connection to the X server is closed will abort nicely, or even abort at all. All this command does is to close the connection to the X server. Many existing applications do indeed abort when their connection to the X server is closed, but some can choose to continue. .SH XDEFAULTS .TP 8 .B Button Specifies a specific pointer button number or the word "any" to use when selecting windows. .SH "SEE ALSO" X(__miscmansuffix__), xwininfo(1), XKillClient and XGetPointerMapping in the Xlib Programmers Manual, KillClient in the X Protocol Specification .SH AUTHOR Jim Fulton, MIT X Consortium .br Dana Chee, Bellcore