How to close IntelliJ IDEA if it hung?

Question

I can't close the IntelliJ IDEA when it hangs, how can I close it from the terminal?

P.S.: I think this question is different from "How to kill a unresponsive program from terminal?" because IntelliJ's process has name just 'java' so you can't really tell it apart by its name.

score 94 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 02 '16 at 15:47

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It's running as a java process so you can use

killall java -9

(Warning! This command kills all java processes)

Source: Intellij support forum

answered Aug 02 '16 at 15:47

frostman

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score 9 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 20 '19 at 21:02

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You can list all processes with

ps aux

and you can search processes with

pgrep <process name>

Then you can kill the process you want with

sudo kill -KILL <pid>

You can read more about it here

edited Feb 20 '19 at 21:02

Shawn

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answered Aug 02 '16 at 17:02

Kris

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How to close IntelliJ IDEA if it hung?

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