How to Force Quit a not responding application?

Question

VLC doesnt quit. How do I force quit the application?

Answer 1

You can use based on name pkill

pkill vlc

If that doesn't work, try:

pkill -9 vlc

Answer 2

Run this command to find out the PID it is using

ps aux | grep vlc

then run

sudo kill -9 <PID NUMBER>