Public bug reported:
Ubuntu (x64 version).Gnome based desktop(pretty default Ubuntu).
Bug is awfully simple.When some GUI app has hanged there is no simple and
evident way to kill it.
Ctrl-Alt-Del offers a bunch of shutdown and system options.Unfortunately all
good things EXCEPT starting task manager.
At very best user will find task manager in quite unevident place: System ->
Administration -> System Monitor
Also I was not able to find in timely manner if there is any keyboard shortcut
to run task manager and\or if it can be changed.In KDE and Kubuntu at least
Ctrl-Alt-Del or any other hotkey can be assigned to starting task manager
(ksysguard).However not so simple, too.
Expected behavior:
There should be easy, evident and quite stable (in sense of application
failures) way to run task managers in both Ubuntu and Kubuntu.
Task manager and method of it's starting should not hope other apps are behave
fair, etc.So method of starting shoule be reliable and easy, window should be
unconditionally on top of all others.
Kubuntu can acheive all this due to great KDE flexibility with some manual
configuration (though you have to configure keyboard shortcut to run ksysguard
and "above others" enforcement yourself but KDE at least allows all this).
In Ubuntu I found no convenient and evident way to kill hanged task.Actually
when using task manager I will not expect that hanged or misbehaving app will
be fair enough to allow me to enter system menu, walk it and start task manager
and that failing app for example does not tries to be "above of others" itself.
In short, there should be some simple and "die-hard" method to run task
manager and it should try to obtain boosted priority and draw winbdows
above others to survive even if some app misbehaves in unfair manner.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: gnome manager run task user
** Description changed:
Ubuntu (x64 version).Gnome based desktop(pretty default Ubuntu).
Bug is awfully simple.When some GUI app has hanged there is no simple and
evident way to kill it.
Ctrl-Alt-Del offers a bunch of shutdown and system options.Unfortunately all
good things EXCEPT starting task manager.
At very best user will find task manager in quite unevident place: System ->
Administration -> System Monitor
Also I was not able to find in timely manner if there is any keyboard
shortcut to run task manager and\or if it can be changed.In KDE and Kubuntu at
least Ctrl-Alt-Del or any other hotkey can be assigned to starting task manager
(ksysguard).However not so simple, too.
Expected behavior:
There should be easy, evident and quite stable (in sense of application
failures) way to run task managers in both Ubuntu and Kubuntu.
Task manager and method of it's starting should not hope other apps are
behave fair, etc.So method of starting shoule be reliable and easy, window
should be unconditionally on top of all others.
Kubuntu can acheive all this due to great KDE flexibility with some manual
configuration (though you have to configure keyboard shortcut to run ksysguard
and "above others" enforcement yourself but KDE at least allows all this).
- In Ubuntu I found no convenient and evident way to kill hanged task.Actually
when using task manager I will not expect that hanged or misbehaving app will
be fair allow me to enter system menu, walk it and start task manager and that
app for example not tries to be "above others" itself.
+ In Ubuntu I found no convenient and evident way to kill hanged task.Actually
when using task manager I will not expect that hanged or misbehaving app will
be fair enough to allow me to enter system menu, walk it and start task manager
and that failing app for example does not tries to be "above of others" itself.
In short, there should be some simple and "die-hard" method to run task
manager and it should try to obtain boosted priority and draw winbdows
above others to survive even if some app misbehaves in unfair manner.
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Ubuntu: there is no easy and evident way to run task manager.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/234884
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