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I am using a scratch file for some Kotlin work.

  • I accidentally created an endless loop in one of my functions and ran the file, so Intellij is not responding.

  • There is no button for stopping the execution of the scratch file and even if there were, that wouldn't work because Intellij is not responding to mouse clicks.

How do I force stop or restart Intellij in this case?

MalaKa
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salyela
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You can kill the process by name using

pkill -9 intellij

or by

killall -9 intellij

or even

kill -9 $(ps aux | grep intellij | awk '{print $2}')
Yair Halberstadt
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rgen3
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    Didn't work for me, but `pkill -9 java` or `killall -9 java` respectively did. Use with care at own responsibility. – Cadoiz Mar 03 '22 at 12:11
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You first need to find Intellij's process id: 

ps -f | grep -i intellij

and then kill the process id (PID):

kill -9 PID
Giorgos Myrianthous
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Already good answers are given above.

Another great way to find IntelliJ PID is to use htop command on Linux.

  1. Install htop with the command: sudo apt install htop
  2. Run htop in terminal
  3. In the tabular format, PID is associated with each process including IntelliJ.
  4. Run kill -9 <pid_of_intellij> to kill the IntelliJ process.
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Gaurav
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You can use xkill then move the cursor from X to the window you need for example with (ide) This works provided that you are not completely frozen OS

AyupovFN
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I tried with intellij but it doesn't work. On my ubuntu this command is working pkill -9 idea

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