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.\" $XFree86: xc/programs/xkill/xkill.man,v 1.8 2001/12/14 20:02:06 dawes Exp $
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.TH XKILL 1 __xorgversion__
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xkill - kill a client by its X resource
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[\-display \fIdisplayname\fP] [\-id \fIresource\fP] [\-button number] [\-frame] [\-all]
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is a utility for forcing the X server to close connections to clients. This
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program is very dangerous, but is useful for aborting programs that have
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displayed undesired windows on a user's screen. If no resource identifier
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is given with \fI-id\fP, \fIxkill\fP will display a special cursor
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as a prompt for the user to select a window to be killed. If a pointer button
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is pressed over a non-root window, the server will close its connection to
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the client that created the window.
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.B \-display \fIdisplayname\fP
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This option specifies the name of the X server to contact.
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.B \-id \fIresource\fP
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This option specifies the X identifier for the resource whose creator is
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to be aborted. If no resource is specified, \fIxkill\fP will display a
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special cursor with which you should select a window to be kill.
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.B \-button \fInumber\fP
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This option specifies the number of pointer button
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that should be used in selecting a window to kill.
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If the word "any" is specified, any button on the pointer may be used. By
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default, the first button in the pointer map (which is usually the leftmost
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This option indicates that all clients with top-level windows on the screen
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should be killed. \fIXkill\fP will ask you to select the root window with
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each of the currently defined buttons to give you several chances to abort.
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Use of this option is highly discouraged.
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This option indicates that xkill should ignore the standard conventions for
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finding top-level client windows (which are typically nested inside a window
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manager window), and simply believe that you want to kill direct children of
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Specifies a specific pointer button number or the word "any" to use when
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X(__miscmansuffix__), xwininfo(1), XKillClient and XGetPointerMapping in the Xlib Programmers
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Manual, KillClient in the X Protocol Specification
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Jim Fulton, MIT X Consortium