On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:39 PM, David Lane <dcl400m at yahoo.com> wrote: > What is the difference between "kill -9" and "kill -15" 15 asks nicely. 9 doesn't. KDE should have a graphical process monitor of some sort that you could use to kill it instead. On Ubuntu with Gnome it's System > Administration > System Monitor > Processes.