[plug] Slight issue with KDE 3.2 konsole killall

[James Devenish]

In message <1081089851.4284.38.camel at syngery>
on Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 10:44:12PM +0800, Chris Caston wrote:
> chris     9137  0.0  5.2 26960 13584 ?       S    19:40   0:00 kdeinit:
> konsole         
> 
> So now that killall konsole just returns: No processes killed but
> killing kdeinit would obviously be very stupid. I only did it once to
> see what would happen :)

I have no idea why you would need to manage your desktop using killall
but, in case you do, I suspect the problem is that killall is matching
only the process names, not the command arguments. By the look of your
output above, the 'konsole' part is not part of the 'process name' but
part of the 'arguments' (which a programme is free to modify). Without
explaining why this naming structure arises, I would simply suggest that
you either find an 'argument-matching' or 'command line-matching' option
for killall, or that you use pkill instead (pkill -f konsole).