Opening And Closing Programs Thru The LINUX CLI - Post #24
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A MUST: YOU CAN CLOSE WHAT YOU CAN OPEN
It may help you in this reading if you have already read my previous I.T. Spice post as I suggest the most preferable linux desktop environments, the link below.
In the world of desktop computing, it is always a must to be able to open programs efficiently. This is the main reason why the Linux Mint desktop is provided with GUI (Graphical User Interface) to be able to open any program thru the Applications Menu. With this utility, one can just click his/her way to be able to open programs.
But have you experienced some situations wherein the program stops functioning? You type something on the keyboard, nothing happens, move the program window and it will not even react, click at any point using the mouse, nothing. Almost always these behaviors is caused by a locked-up GUI interface that can not just seem to connect the mouse and keyboard movements to its intended reaction. Also, there are some programs that runs in the background that will cause the “active” window to be out-of-focus as far as CPU cycles are concerned. In short, software-induced locks.
If one resorts to force the computer to turn off, doing such will surely damage the computer’s disks, almost always, the disk is writing or deleting something on itself, and as it is spinning yet, a sudden and abrupt stop will surely damage the disk.
You are simply inviting trouble everytime you do this.
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ENTER THE LINUX CLI: LET US OPEN PROGRAMS
If only you can surely close what you opened. There is a way actually, and that is thru the linux CLI (Command Line Interface). This is the linux cli below as navigated thru the "Applications Menu":
But before you can open any GUI program, you have to open it first of course. In Linux Mint, you can open the terminal by clicking: “Application Menu –→ Utilities –→ Terminal”
It will open a window, the Terminal GUI, as below:
I think it is time to show how to open the most used Programs.
-1. To open the LibreOffice Writer (this is like Microsoft Windows), type at the terminal: “libreoffice --writer”
-2. To open the LibreOffice Calc (this is like Microsoft Excel), type at the terminal: “libreoffice --calc”
-3. To open the LibreOffice Impress (this is like Microsoft Powerpoint), type at the terminal: “libreoffice --impress”
-4. To open the LibreOffice Draw (this is like Microsoft Visio), type at the terminal: “libreoffice --draw”
-5. To open the GIMP Program (this is like Photoshop on Windows), type at the terminal: “nohup gimp &”
-6. To open the VLC Program (this is Music and Video player), type at the terminal: “nohup vlc &”
-7. To open Firefox Program (this is the well-known browser of course), type at the terminal: “nohup firefox &”
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ENTER THE LINUX CLI: LET US CLOSE PROGRAMS
To close the Programs as presented, please do the following:
- To close libreoffice writer, type: “killall soffice.bin”
- To close libreoffice calc, type: “killall soffice.bin”
- To close libreoffice impress, type: “killall soffice.bin”
- To close libreoffice draw, type: “killall soffice.bin”
- To close GIMP, type: “killall gimp”
- To close VLC type: “killall vlc”
- To close Firefox, type: “killall firefox”
Many more to come in our I.T Spices, this will also get more exciting……...
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