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xkill no longer in x11-utils

Asked by Iľja Pelech

Hi, folks!

I noticed, Xkill got removed from the x11-utils package in 18.04.

Is this intentional?

What should I use as an alternative?

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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

According to https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/amd64/x11-utils/filelist the program is still there (note the name xkill and not Xkill).

For diagnostic purposes please provide the output of the commands

uname -a
lsb_release -crid
apt-cache policy x11-utils

(Remark: You have to be aware that there are restrictions on running X utilities on Wayland.)

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Iľja Pelech (ilja-pelech) said : 		#2

Thanks Manfred Hampl, that solved my question.

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Iľja Pelech (ilja-pelech) said : 		#3

I must have been blind not to see it. For some reason, I couldn't run it from gnome-shell using the run dialog and didn't try shell (can't figure out why I didn't).