5mo ago

How it feels to use xkill

Source: u/Tiger_man_ on Reddit

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How did this picture happen
This is so absurd, fancy outfit, hair, gun, computer
Art.
- A little googling and I’ve come up with that the name of the woman is Eve Astrid Andersson (now a director at Google) and this was essentially a series of photos taken at her work at the time as a joke.
  
  All the people saying she looks like Scully and her surname is pretty much the same as the actress who played that character? This idea practically fell into the laps of the people behind these photos.
  Frankly, I would not be surprised if she had it as an office nickname before this even occurred to them.
  
  so it was prophetic in a way
- I thought it was Scilly from the X-Files at first lol.
  Edit: Scully
  
  Same.
  That was probably the intention. X-Files was at its height of popularity around this time (assuming 1997 by the Mac model and OS 8).
- Looks like a 1990s corporate training video.
- There's one more...
  https://thechive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/thtablrtsuyc1.jpg
  Looks like one of those images that's a old as the internet. Mac OS 8 on the screen was released in 1997, and this looks like a pretty late 90s type of photo. The 90s were wild when it came to things like someone taking photos, being then developed, scanning them, putting them online, etc. Stuff like this was the foundation of early memes and websites.
- And that is, as far as one can tell from an image, an actual gun as I doubt an airsoft manufacturer would bother with the gas block or dust cover.
  
  And no flash hider?
I miss xkill after my recent switch to Wayland. I have yet to find a replacement.
- Does CTRL-ALT-ESC still work in Wayland (assuming KDE, might be desktop dependent)
  
  Doesn't do anything on GNOME/Wayland for me.
  
  Yep, works in KDE.
- For people using hyprland, you can get the same functionality as xkill by running hyprctl kill , I have it bound to a shortcut for easy access
question to my heavily armed pingus, how do we snipe 'em in Wayland 🔫🐧
You used to be able to click the wallpaper, and that would kill the DE
Skully finally noticed the ghost in the machine and decided to do what Mulder couldn't.
Kinda surprising nobody thought to make a lightgun version of xkill. At least, a few minutes of searching and I can’t find anything
Should be pointing at the monitor. Xkill only stops showing the process, it doesn't kill it.
"Press "Reset" with your Freedom Finger"
Nah. sudo kill -9 it.
- so that's how its done on Wayland?
  
  Murdering it with SIGKILL? Well, that's how I do it in Wayland, as well as when not running a DE.
What's an x?

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