Saturday, 29 September 2012

How to kill Skype process in Ubuntu


How to kill Skype process in Ubuntu

The Skype process seems to be immortal when it crashes in Ubuntu. Killing it with “killall skype” does not work. And it’s not a nice process either, because it uses 100% CPU!

Fortunately, there is a way of killing it without restarting your computer. This is how to do it:

$ killall skype -s 9


and you can start skype form terminal using skype -i