how to force stop Intellij on linux

Question

I am using a scratch file for some Kotlin work.

• I accidentally created an endless loop in one of my functions and ran the file, so Intellij is not responding.

• There is no button for stopping the execution of the scratch file and even if there were, that wouldn't work because Intellij is not responding to mouse clicks.

How do I force stop or restart Intellij in this case?

Answer 1

Already good answers are given above.

Another great way to find IntelliJ PID is to use htop command on Linux.

1. Install htop with the command: sudo apt install htop
2. Run htop in terminal
3. In the tabular format, PID is associated with each process including IntelliJ.
4. Run kill -9 <pid_of_intellij> to kill the IntelliJ process.

Answer 2

You can kill the process by name using

pkill -9 intellij

or by

killall -9 intellij

or even

kill -9 $(ps aux | grep intellij | awk '{print $2}')

Answer 3

You first need to find Intellij's process id:

ps -f | grep -i intellij

and then kill the process id (PID):

kill -9 PID

Answer 4

You can use xkill then move the cursor from X to the window you need for example with (ide) This works provided that you are not completely frozen OS

Answer 5

I tried with intellij but it doesn't work. On my ubuntu this command is working pkill -9 idea