xkill

Kill a window interactively in a graphical session. See also: kill, killall. More information: <https://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/man/man1/xkill.1.xhtml>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/xkill.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install x11-utils
Ubuntu
apt-get install x11-utils
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S xorg-xkill
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install x11-utils
CentOS
yum install xorg-x11-server-utils
Fedora
dnf install xorg-x11-server-utils
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install x11-utils
Raspbian
apt-get install x11-utils

Kill a window interactively in a graphical session. See also: kill, killall. More information: <https://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/man/man1/xkill.1.xhtml>.

  • Display a cursor to kill a window when pressing the left mouse button (press any other mouse button to cancel):
    xkill
  • Display a cursor to select a window to kill by pressing any mouse button:
    xkill -button any
  • Kill a window with a specific id (use `xwininfo` to get info about windows):
    xkill -id id

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