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---
title: "kill"
tags: [ "Documentation", "Basics" ]
---
If you want to kill a program in a graphical environment, open a terminal and type:
# Graphical Programs
```bash
xkill
```
Then click on the application which you want to kill.
# All Programs
To kill a program, find it with:
```bash
pgrep discord
```
This will give you the UUID, e.g. `19643`.
Kill the program with:
```bash
kill 19643
```
# Types of Kill
To see an ordered list of termination signals:
```bash
kill -l
```
> 1) SIGHUP 2) SIGINT 3) SIGQUIT 4) SIGILL 5) SIGTRAP
> 6) SIGABRT 7) SIGBUS 8) SIGFPE 9) SIGKILL 10) SIGUSR1
> 11) SIGSEGV 12) SIGUSR2 13) SIGPIPE 14) SIGALRM 15) SIGTERM
You can select these levels with a '- number'.
Higher numbers are roughly equivalent to insistence.
For example:
```bash
kill -1 3498
```
This roughly means 'maybe stop the program, if you can, maybe reload'.
Or the famous:
```bash
kill -9 3298
```
This means 'kill the program dead, now, no questions, dead'.
**Beware** - if Firefox starts another program to connect to the internet, and you `kill -9 firefox`, this will leave all of Firefox's internet connection programs ("children") still there, but dead and useless.
# Sobriquets
- A dead program which sits there doing nothing is known as a 'zombie'.
- A program which is run by another program is called a 'child program'.
- A child whose parent program is dead is called an 'orphan'.
- A child who remains running despite being useless because the parent is dead is called an 'orphan zombie'.