Team Monitor

Whatever the system is, in some situation, you will need to kill some processes in case they are stuck.

In this article, we will review in details how to do so via the Team Monitor.

Killing tasks on an operating system is a necessary feature.

Depending on the system, the shortcuts are different :

• On Windows, you can access to the "Task Manager" via the Ctrl+Shift+Esc.
• On MacOS, the Cmd+Alt+Esc will open the "Force Quit Applications" window
• On Haiku, you will need to press the Ctrl+Alt+Del to access the "Team Monitor"

Please note that if you are using a keyboard without a "Del" key - like some Mac keyboards - you will need to press "Fn+Backspace" to indicate the "Del" key.

It means in that situation, the shortcut to call the Team Monitor is "Ctrl+Alt+Fn+Backspace".

Great, now the Team Monitor is opening :

Blue lines indicate the processes launched by the system, other lines are launched by the user (white lines or black lines depending on your system's color preference).

And you know what ?

Red lines are the programs which are stuck :)

Suppose, you would like to stop "WebPositive" like below :

You have two possibilities :

• Quit the application : it means it will quit the application gracefully
• Kill the application : it will force the application to quit (you might loose some data)

There's another way to stop an application.

If you have noticed, there's an "Open Terminal" button in Team Monitor.

Click on it to launch the Terminal :

You have two ways to stop WebPositive :

Stop it gracefully by typing the command below :

kill WebPositive

Or force it to stop (you might loose some data) :

kill -9 WebPositive

Once the application has been stopped or killed, it will not appear anymore in the Team Monitor :

As indicated before, all the blue lines refer to processes launched by the system.

You can see several lines like the "input_server" (which is handling the Team Monitor access), the media_server, the notification_server, etc. :

Now if you are in a desperate situation and would like to reboot the system, you will need to hold "Ctrl+Alt+Del" during 4 seconds in Team Monitor :)