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I was in the process of installing “Additional Drivers” when I encountered an error and I was informed to review a log. I left the notification dialog open while I switch to a terminal but when I switched back, the notification dialog was missing/hidden, now the primary dialog won’t close. I can’t find the hidden notification dialog even if I minimize everything nor can I find the process PID that the dialog box belongs to? In even likes these, what can I do?

– Answer –

• 19 May 2012: Answer by penner for How to close a non-reponsive dialog when it's secondary dialog is hidden? -

  In terminal (open a terminal window with CTR+ALT+T)

  type:

  kill $(pgrep name-of-application-here)
  

  example:

  kill $(pgrep drivers)
  

  This will kill all processes that have that phrase in the title

  pgrep returns the pid # number of a process that you know the name of.

  Try:

  pgrep terminal
  

• 28 April 2012: How to close a non-reponsive dialog when it's secondary dialog is hidden? -

  I was in the process of installing "Additional Drivers" when I encountered an error and I was informed to review a log. I left the notification dialog open while I switch to a terminal but when I switched back, the notification dialog was missing/hidden, now the primary dialog won't close. I can't find the hidden notification dialog even if I minimize everything nor can I find the process PID that the dialog box belongs to? In even likes these, what can I do?

I was in the process of installing “Additional Drivers” when I encountered an error and I was informed to review a log. I left the notification dialog open while I switch to a terminal but when I switched back, the notification dialog was missing/hidden, now the primary dialog won’t close. I can’t find the hidden notification dialog even if I minimize everything nor can I find the process PID that the dialog box belongs to? In even likes these, what can I do?

– Answer –

• 19 May 2012: Answer by penner for How to close a non-reponsive dialog when it's secondary dialog is hidden? -

  In terminal (open a terminal window with CTR+ALT+T)

  type:

  kill $(pgrep name-of-application-here)
  

  example:

  kill $(pgrep drivers)
  

  This will kill all processes that have that phrase in the title

  pgrep returns the pid # number of a process that you know the name of.

  Try:

  pgrep terminal
  

• 28 April 2012: How to close a non-reponsive dialog when it's secondary dialog is hidden? -

  I was in the process of installing "Additional Drivers" when I encountered an error and I was informed to review a log. I left the notification dialog open while I switch to a terminal but when I switched back, the notification dialog was missing/hidden, now the primary dialog won't close. I can't find the hidden notification dialog even if I minimize everything nor can I find the process PID that the dialog box belongs to? In even likes these, what can I do?

I was in the process of installing “Additional Drivers” when I encountered an error and I was informed to review a log. I left the notification dialog open while I switch to a terminal but when I switched back, the notification dialog was missing/hidden, now the primary dialog won’t close. I can’t find the hidden notification dialog even if I minimize everything nor can I find the process PID that the dialog box belongs to? In even likes these, what can I do?

– Answer –

• 19 May 2012: Answer by penner for How to close a non-reponsive dialog when it's secondary dialog is hidden? -

  In terminal (open a terminal window with CTR+ALT+T)

  type:

  kill $(pgrep name-of-application-here)
  

  example:

  kill $(pgrep drivers)
  

  This will kill all processes that have that phrase in the title

  pgrep returns the pid # number of a process that you know the name of.

  Try:

  pgrep terminal
  

• 28 April 2012: How to close a non-reponsive dialog when it's secondary dialog is hidden? -

  I was in the process of installing "Additional Drivers" when I encountered an error and I was informed to review a log. I left the notification dialog open while I switch to a terminal but when I switched back, the notification dialog was missing/hidden, now the primary dialog won't close. I can't find the hidden notification dialog even if I minimize everything nor can I find the process PID that the dialog box belongs to? In even likes these, what can I do?

I was in the process of installing “Additional Drivers” when I encountered an error and I was informed to review a log. I left the notification dialog open while I switch to a terminal but when I switched back, the notification dialog was missing/hidden, now the primary dialog won’t close. I can’t find the hidden notification dialog even if I minimize everything nor can I find the process PID that the dialog box belongs to? In even likes these, what can I do?

– Answer –

• 19 May 2012: Answer by penner for How to close a non-reponsive dialog when it's secondary dialog is hidden? -

  In terminal (open a terminal window with CTR+ALT+T)

  type:

  kill $(pgrep name-of-application-here)
  

  example:

  kill $(pgrep drivers)
  

  This will kill all processes that have that phrase in the title

  pgrep returns the pid # number of a process that you know the name of.

  Try:

  pgrep terminal
  

• 28 April 2012: How to close a non-reponsive dialog when it's secondary dialog is hidden? -

  I was in the process of installing "Additional Drivers" when I encountered an error and I was informed to review a log. I left the notification dialog open while I switch to a terminal but when I switched back, the notification dialog was missing/hidden, now the primary dialog won't close. I can't find the hidden notification dialog even if I minimize everything nor can I find the process PID that the dialog box belongs to? In even likes these, what can I do?