I have run the "hwbrowser" from the menu. Then i tried to kill hwbrowser from terminal.

1.kill pid_of_hwbrowser

--> This command kills only binary (hwbrowser) run by the normal user, not the main application because there are many (3) processes running along with hwbrowser. and they are.

[ankit@ankit ~]$ ps -aux | grep hwbrowser Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See /usr/share/doc/procps-3.2.3/FAQ ankit 6355 1.0 1.5 18460 8108 pts/2 S 12:38 0:00 hwbrowser root 6356 0.0 0.2 7472 1396 pts/2 S 12:38 0:00 /usr/sbin/userhelper -w hwbrowser root 6360 0.0 0.1 6772 952 pts/2 S 12:38 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/share/hwbrowser/hwbrowser root 6361 8.1 3.3 28276 16976 pts/2 S 12:38 0:01 /usr/bin/python /usr/share/hwbrowser/DeviceList.py ankit 6370 0.0 0.1 5816 660 pts/2 R+ 12:39 0:00 grep hwbrowser [ankit@ankit ~]$

2. So, i thought i need to kill all other processes also along with hwbrowser. So,

[ankit@ankit ~]$ killall -g hwbrowser [1]+ Terminated hwbrowser [ankit@ankit ~]$ ps -aux | grep hwbrowser Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See /usr/share/doc/procps-3.2.3/FAQ root 6360 0.0 0.1 6772 952 pts/2 S 12:38 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/share/hwbrowser/hwbrowser root 6361 1.2 3.3 28276 16976 pts/2 S 12:38 0:01 /usr/bin/python /usr/share/hwbrowser/DeviceList.py ankit 6373 0.0 0.1 4652 656 pts/2 R+ 12:40 0:00 grep hwbrowser

Still gui of hwbrowser running. If you have run hwbrowser from Menu (gui) then --> All other gui applications closed and gnome-panel restarted. If you have run hwbrowser from same terminal (console) then --> Other gui applications and gnome-panel will not get affected.

3. So, finally i thought i need to be root to kill all the instances of hwbrowser. And,

[root@ankit ~]# ps -aux | grep hwbrowser Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See /usr/share/doc/procps-3.2.3/FAQ root 6412 0.0 0.1 4656 668 pts/2 S+ 12:47 0:00 grep hwbrowser [root@ankit ~]#

Now hwbrowser killed fully... If you have run hwbrowser from Menu (gui) then --> All other gui applications closed and gnome-panel restarted. If you have run hwbrowser from same terminal (console) then --> Other gui applications and gnome-panel will not get affected.

This is not specific to hwbrowser only but most of the applications created in python included in fedora-core software.

So, i want to know is there any solution to kill hwbrowser(which have been running from Menu(gui) not from the same terminal) without affecting other applications?

Thank You! Ankit Patel

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