kill-desktop

kill-desktop helps you exit your graphical applications without losing data. It can ask applications to exit, tell them to exit, and exit them.

Demo

kill-desktop presents the status of the current system, and offers you some options: $ kill-desktop 📫 gedit - Untitled Document 1 - gedit 📫 google-chrome - quad.pe - Google Chrome 📭 slack - Slack 📫 spotify - XYconstant - Do It Well (feat. Tom Aspaul) 📫 sun-awt-X11-XFramePeer - kill-desktop [~/code/kill-desktop] - .../src/main.rs [kill-desktop] - IntelliJ

Here, we can see a load of applications running. This view is updated in real-time.

You are asked for an action. Let's ask everyone to shut down nicely:

Action? [d]elete, [t]erm, [k]ill, [q]uit)? d Asking everyone to quit.

The apps start shutting down:

📫 google-chrome - quad.pe - Google Chrome 📭 slack - Slack 📭 spotify - XYconstant - Do It Well (feat. Tom Aspaul) 📫 sun-awt-X11-XFramePeer - kill-desktop [~/code/kill-desktop] - .../src/main.rs [kill-desktop] - IntelliJ Action? [d]elete, [t]erm, [k]ill, [q]uit)?

gedit has gone, slack and Spotify are thinking about it.

📭 google-chrome - quad.pe - Google Chrome 📭 slack - Slack 📭 spotify - XYconstant - Do It Well (feat. Tom Aspaul) 📫 sun-awt-X11-XFramePeer - kill-desktop [~/code/kill-desktop] - .../src/main.rs [kill-desktop] - IntelliJ Action? [d]elete, [t]erm, [k]ill, [q]uit)?

google-chrome has woken up and is thinking about it.

📭 google-chrome - quad.pe - Google Chrome 📭 slack - Slack 📭 spotify - XYconstant - Do It Well (feat. Tom Aspaul) 📫 sun-awt-X11-XFramePeer - IntelliJ IDEA Action? [d]elete, [t]erm, [k]ill, [q]uit)?

They're going down!

📭 slack - Slack 📭 spotify - XYconstant - Do It Well (feat. Tom Aspaul) 📫 sun-awt-X11-XFramePeer - IntelliJ IDEA Action? [d]elete, [t]erm, [k]ill, [q]uit)?

📭 slack - Slack 📭 spotify - XYconstant - Do It Well (feat. Tom Aspaul) 📭 sun-awt-X11-XFramePeer - IntelliJ IDEA Action? [d]elete, [t]erm, [k]ill, [q]uit)?

... so slowly ...

📭 slack - Slack 📭 spotify - XYconstant - Do It Well (feat. Tom Aspaul) Action? [d]elete, [t]erm, [k]ill, [q]uit)?

📭 slack - Slack

Aha, just slack is left, and it's closed its window. It hasn't exited, though. That would be what we want. Let's tell it to quit.

Action? [d]elete, [t]erm, [k]ill, [q]uit)? t Telling everyone to quit.

No applications found, exiting.

At last, it went away, and we can confidently reboot.