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When I was using three windows in Chromium and two windows in Firefox my system suddenly hung while I was switching between them.

In Windows I used to open task manager and close a specific window which was stuck.

How to do this in Ubuntu?

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sivasdpi
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  • If you want to do the same just open the system monitor and kill the process. But it would be much better if you actually troubleshoot or avoid the problem in the first place. – ChanganAuto Jun 01 '21 at 15:20
  • Pls help me how to do this in 16.04 LTS version. Pls don't tell its outdated cannot answer . Im unable to upgrade ram of my laptop to go for latest versions due to lockdown in my country . – sivasdpi Jun 01 '21 at 15:23
  • I'm checking , 24601. Thanks – sivasdpi Jun 01 '21 at 15:23
  • I checked, 24601. Even I'm unable to move cursor to open terminal . At that time what to do? – sivasdpi Jun 01 '21 at 15:28
  • @sivasdpi Ctrl+Alt+T –  Jun 01 '21 at 15:31

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Hit CTRL+ALT+F1 and you will get into a login terminal.

Enter your login details.

Enter sudo ps -A - this lists all processes running on the computer. Write down the process ID - PID of the stuck process.

Enter sudo kill PID where PID is the process ID of your stuck process.

Hit CTRL+ALT+F7 to resume the graphic mode.

In case the graphic mode is stuck enter in the CTRL+ALT+F1 screen sudo service lightdm restart.

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