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 -id,
xkill 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.
OPTIONS
- display displayname
This option specifies the name of the X server to contact.
- id resource
This option specifies the X identifier for the resource whose creator is to be aborted.
If no resource is specified, xkill will display a special cursor with which you
should select a window to be kill.
- button number
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.
- all
This option indicates that all clients with top-level windows on the screen should be
killed. Xkill 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.
- 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.
XDEFAULTS
Button
Specifies a specific pointer button number or the word "any"
to use when selecting windows.
SEE ALSO
X(1), xwininfo(1), XKillClient and XGetPointerMapping in the Xlib Programmers Manual,
KillClient in the X Protocol Specification