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Clicked on the link thinking it was about another Vim clone, but this gave me quite the laugh! I love over-built solutions to slight annoyances.

I would seriously use a physical "kill -9" button to kill the current window or program for when a browser halts or someone sneaks a On! function into your code.

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A few years ago i wrote xkeyller[0] which kills any foreground window (well, the process that owns it) when you press Ctrl+Alt+K. I wrote it partly for games that take over X and then hang themselves and partly as an argument on Reddit towards someone that was saying X cannot do that and you need Wayland for it :-P

[0] http://runtimeterror.com/tools/xkeyller

Just a heads up: Your "download source" link is for a .tar.bz2, but the file is compressed with xz and not bzip2.

Thanks, i made this archive ages ago and probably did a mistake back then. I fixed it.

You should check out xkill, which transforms the mouse into the window killing button

That just tells the server to remove the window and break the process. If it’s really stuck it’ll keep spinning in the background.

It turns the cursor into a little skull and crossbones. I remember using it quite often 20+ years ago, not so much these days.

Yeah, last time I used it was in 1996 on AIX running on IBM RT PC.

I gave it a go today and it's now red 8)

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