wine users - May 2011 - How to kill a running wine application

Question: How to kill a Windows application that runs with wine?

I have installed new stable version of wine for Debian. Then the Windows
application starts OK but hangs for some reason (its the application logic
fault). However I can't see any way to close the application window or to
kill the application. I tried as in documentation:

# wineserver -k
bash: wineserver: command not found

I also checked:
# ls -l /usr/bin/wineserver 
ls: cannot access /usr/bin/wineserver: No such file or directory
#which wineserver
#

However, the process is running:
ps -A | grep wine
 2232 ?        00:00:04 wineserver
 2250 ?        00:00:00 winedevice.exe

This time I did:
# kill -9 2232

But it left messed remains of the application window graphics and I think this
is not the way to go: I'd like wine to kill one of its applications and not
kill the whole wineserver.

So, how to do it?

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 07:58, drazone <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> Question: How to kill a Windows application that runs with wine?
>
> I have installed new stable version of wine for Debian. Then the Windows
application starts OK but hangs for some reason (its the application logic
fault). However I can't see any way to close the application window or to
kill the application. I tried as in documentation:
>
> # wineserver -k
> bash: wineserver: command not found
Check the installed package files (e.g. "dpkg -S wineserver")
Check your PATH (maybe it was installed in /usr/local/bin or similar;
normally it should be in the same place as the wine binary)
If locate is installed, try 'updatedb' then 'locate wineserver'.
> I also checked:
> # ls -l /usr/bin/wineserver
> ls: cannot access /usr/bin/wineserver: No such file or directory
> #which wineserver
> #
>
> However, the process is running:
> ps -A | grep wine
> ?2232 ? ? ? ? ?00:00:04 wineserver
> ?2250 ? ? ? ? ?00:00:00 winedevice.exe
>
> This time I did:
> # kill -9 2232
>
> But it left messed remains of the application window graphics and I think
this is not the way to go
Kill winedevice.exe as well
>: I'd like wine to kill one of its applications and not kill the whole
wineserver.
>
> So, how to do it?
You can try "wine taskmgr" (doesn't seem to work for me, though)

Alternatively, use different wineprefixes

On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 00:58 -0500, drazone wrote:
> Question: How to kill a Windows application that runs with wine?
> 
Did you try clicking the 'Close Window' icon in the app window's
title
bar? That usually works for me (Fedora 13/14, Gnome). There is usually a
pause of several seconds and then a dialogue box appears asking whether
you want to wait or force a quit. Forcing quit generally cleans up
pretty well, though its worth opening a terminal window and running  

	ps -u $USER

to see if anything is left that shouldn't be there. If there is, you can
try logging out and in again and/or using 'kill -9 ' to get rid of the
unwanted processes: it won't kill processes you don't own. If you
accidentally mess up your login session by killing something you
shouldn't, logging out and in should fix that. 


Martin