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How to add force quit button to the unity top bar/panel?

Asked by William Pabon

I want to add a force quit button to the top panel on the unity desktop (12.04 LTS), but the system does not allow me to add anything to the panel. Is there a way to solve this?

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Roy S (clean-carrier-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

These commands in the terminal should do the trick:

wget http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=MHRX6KEV

mv Force_Quit.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/

nautilus ~/.local/share/applications/

Drag the Force_Quit.desktop from the pop-up to the Unity launcher.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

you may want to run:

wget -o Force_Quit.desktop http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=MHRX6KEV

or the file will download as 'raw.php?i=MHRX6KEV' which will make the other commands fail.

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William Pabon (williepabon) said : 		#3

After doing all the steps above I have on /home/.local/share applications/ the file Force_Quit.desktop but,
I get an error if I try to open it and also it doesn't drag and drop to the launcher. Am I missing something?

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William Pabon (williepabon) said : 		#4

I should mention that I followed the instructions following andrew's advise.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

You can also copy it to /usr/share/applications then drag to the launcher

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William Pabon (williepabon) said : 		#6

Andrew:
Tried your suggestion, but happened the same thing as explained above (the error and it doesn't drag).

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William Pabon (williepabon) said : 		#7

Decided to use xkill command and assigned a keyboard shortcut to execute such.
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