Close all terminal linux

How to close all terminals in Linux?

CTRL + D in each is a very fast way. It’s not a whim, but hitting CTRL+D makes it quick and easy.

How do I quit the terminal in Linux?

Ctrl+C can be used to safely stop any command in the terminal. If it doesn’t stop with this, then Ctrl+Z can be used to force stop. You can exit the terminal using the exit command. You can shut down or restart the computer using the sudo halt and sudo reboot command.

How to close all terminals in Ubuntu?

To close a terminal window, you can use the exit command. You can also use the shortcut ctrl+shift+w to close a terminal tab and ctrl+shift+q to close the entire terminal, including all tabs.

How to close all programs in Linux?

If you are having trouble with an application on Linux, here are several ways to kill a program on Linux.

How to completely erase the terminal?

A common way to do this is to use the `clear` command or its keyboard shortcut CTRL+L.

How to kill a process in Linux?

How to stop VS in terminal code?

This is the default Terminal app shortcut and it also works in VS Code. In some cases, like running a Node server, Ctrl-C wouldn’t work. Instead, you can stop the application or command by pressing Ctrl+Alt+M (i.e. Ctrl+Option+M for Mac users). Hitting escape clears the terminal and undoes everything.

How to kill a process in Terminal?

How can I see all processes in Linux?

Check running process in Linux

How to kill a process in Terminal?

To kill a process, use the kill command. Use the ps command if you need to find the PID of a process. Always try to kill a process with a simple kill command. This is the cleanest way to kill a process and has the same effect as killing a process.

What does Pkill do on Linux?

pkill is a command line utility that sends signals to running program processes based on given criteria. Processes can be specified by their full or partial name, a user running the process, or other attributes.

What command is used to clear the terminal?

In computing, CLS (for clear screen) is a command used by the COMMAND.COM and cmd.exe command line interpreters on DOS, Digital Research FlexOS, IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows, and ReactOS operating systems to clear the screen or console command window and any output generated by them.

How to erase the terminal in Windows?

Type “cls” then press the “Enter” key. This is the clear command, and when entered, all your previous commands in the window are cleared.

What is the command to delete a file?

To do this, start by opening the Start menu (Windows key), type run and press Enter. In the dialog box that appears, type cmd and press Enter again. With the command prompt open, enter del /f filename , where filename is the name of the file(s) (you can specify multiple files using commas) that you want to delete.

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How to close the Terminal?

In effect this question, taken together with the OP’s comments below, has two parts: figuring out the kind of terminal, then getting out of it accordingly. There’s also the potential problem of key combinations being applied to a host (physical) system rather than the guest (virtual) system. But I think we can make this a duplicate of How do I get to the GUI after switching to a virtual console?, I accidentally hit Ctl Alt F. How do I return to the GUI?, or Reverting from Ctrl — Alt — F1.

It should be made clear whether OP is concerned about returning from a terminal emulator to desktop or from a tty to desktop. For terminal emulator enter exit and for tty press ctrl + alt + f8 or alt + f8.

@Faizan I think that comment by the OP, taken with the question, pretty strongly indicates the goal is to get back to the GUI from a text-based virtual console. The OP doesn’t seem to have been back in months, but I agree clarification from them remains welcome. Btw, on Ubuntu, X11 nearly always runs on tty7 —so Alt+F7, rather than Alt+F8. (I’ve heard many Mint systems have X11 on tty8 , but I don’t know if that’s true as my only Mint system is LMDE and not the more common Ubuntu-based Mint.)

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You can type exit . You can type ctrl — d . Or (if you’re on a virtual terminal), you use ctrl — alt — F8 .

my terminal in virtual machine is at a black background and when i type exit it refreshes its not a program opened in ubuntu like i see in videos what can i do & is there a program that let me have the terminal as a openable program in the ubuntu

I sometimes notice that after trying to log out with crtl+d the log takes longer or the window doesn’t close, pressing ctrl+c usually helps (and if we’re talking about ssh using the parameter -v).

ctrl + shift + w closes the current tab and ctrl + shift + q closes the entire window.

This is similar to other commands that also are normally ctrl + whatever such as, ctrl + c and ctrl + v for copy and paste which, in gnome-terminal are, ctrl + shift + c and ctrl + shift + v respectively.

I’m not sure if the following works in a virtual machine, however, it is important to also note that when you switch to a tty text session such as tty1 — tty6 using ctrl + alt + f1 up to ctrl + alt + f6 , you can return to the regular desktop xsession by pressing ctrl + alt + f7 typically or sometimes ctrl + alt + f8 .

We have a question about switching terminals in a guest system (virtual box) askubuntu.com/q/49571/40581 🙂

TL;DR: Press Alt + F7 .

You are apparently asking how to close a virtual console, also known as a virtual terminal—a full-screen text terminal you got to by pressing a key combination like Ctrl + Alt + F1 , Ctrl + Alt + F2 , and so forth.

In infer this since you say you wish to «return back to the desktop of Ubuntu» (indicating you are not on your desktop now) and, in a comment, wrote:

my terminal in virtual machine is at a black background and when i type exit it refreshes its not a program .

Rather than actually closing your text-based virtual console, you probably just want to get back to the virtual console on which the graphical user interface is running. This is usually the seventh virtual console, so press Alt + F7 . ( Ctrl is optional when switching from a virtual console that does not have the GUI running on it; however, you must use it when switching from a virtual console that does have the GUI running on it.)

If those key combinations do not work—or change the virtual console of the host rather than the guest—and your Ubuntu system is a VirtualBox guest system, see How do I switch between virtual terminals in a guest system? as suggested by LiveWireBT.

Another way, which is much less often used, is to run the command chvt 7 .

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How to close all terminals with a bash script that effectively presses Cntrl+Shift+Q in each terminal

I often have many terminals open, some of which are running important processes (e.g. servers) and others which are not running anything and can be closed. The ‘important’ ones bring up prompts for confirmation if you press Cntrl + Shift + Q in them, like the one shown below. I would like to have a (bash) script which closes all terminals but leaves the ‘important’ ones in the mode shown above. From https://askubuntu.com/questions/608914/closing-all-instances-of-terminal-at-once-cleanly, I obtained the following script:

#!/bin/bash xdotool search --class "terminal" | while read id do xdotool windowactivate "$id" &>/dev/null xdotool key ctrl+shift+q sleep 0.2 done 

However, I found after running the script that some ‘unimportant’ terminals still remained open. Is there perhaps a bug in the script above?

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another way to do this is to kill any idle bash processes, that is, those with no subprocesses. this should also close their parent terminal windows. it will run much faster than the xdotool + sleep 0.2 method.

here is how i can see process trees for my bash processes:

pgrep bash | xargs -r -n1 pstree -p -c 

bash(1470)───startx(1546)───xinit(1568)─┬─Xorg(1569)─┬─(1570) │ ├─(1571) │ └─(1572) └─dwm(1575) bash(1582) bash(4004) bash(4125) bash(28105)───nvim(17279)─┬─R(17956)─┬─(17958) │ ├─(17959) . 

the first and last bash s here have subprocesses and i don’t want to kill them. the middle three can safely be killed, which will also close their parent terminal windows. first, i’ll select only those by filtering out any lines with a » — «:

pgrep bash | xargs -r -n1 pstree -p -c | grep -v \- 

bash(1582) bash(4004) bash(4125) 

next, i’ll use grep again to include only the process id numbers:

pgrep bash | xargs -r -n1 pstree -p -c | grep -v \- | grep -o '8\+' 

pgrep bash | xargs -r -n1 pstree -p -c | grep -v \- | grep -o '6\+' | xargs -r kill 

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Is there a command to close a terminal window via commandline?

To close a terminal window you can use the exit command . Alternatively you can use the shortcut ctrl + shift + w to close a terminal tab and ctrl + shift + q to close the entire terminal including all tabs.

You can use the ^D shortcut — that is, hitting Control and d. This works in many shells and shell-like environments. Technically speaking, this key combination emits the end-of-transmission character (ASCII code 04). In gnome-terminal , i.e. bash and other shells, this is interpreted as finishing the interactive session. You can also see this behavior in programs like cat which read from standard input (the keyboard). Try running it without arguments; you can terminate by entering ^D .

is the command you want to use for that.

There is an alternate way, which requires a bit more keystrokes, but is worth knowing.

Using exec command

which would, effectively, close the window after 1 second.

It doesn’t quite «exit» the shell, but it rather replaces the shell’s process with the . When command terminates, process exits.

I know this answer is a little bit late but, If you are using Ubuntu or another Linux distro, simply use Ctrl + D to close the entire terminal.

I initially tried all the rest and they were just not working. For example I see people recommending exit but honestly, it just doesnt work.

I hope someone agrees with me.

Ctrl + D works indeed, but in my case «exit» has always been working too. It’s weird that it doesn’t for you.

xdotool getactivewindow windowkill

Notice that this will kill all active windows!

If you want to kill only the current window use:

xdotool key —clearmodifiers Ctrl+Shift+Q key —clearmodifiers KP_Enter

Welcome to AskUbuntu. A good answer that can be improved. «Try using» is the hallmark of a suggestion and suggestions should go in comments. Replacing it with «You can use» makes it into a proper answer. I’ll suggest an editing.

Yes there is.First type echo $$ in terminal to know it’s process id. Then type kill -9 processid .

To close the terminal whilst leaving all running processes to continue running, you can do the following:

This will leave the current running process running in the background and close the terminal(i find this to be very useful).

Yes. The command is exit. Type exit into the terminal and press enter

I’m using KDE here. I wrote a script and I execute it by right click > execute in console. After the executtion, the newly opened window of konsole, was left open and I had to manualy close it (by pressing X or Alt+F4, or typing exit). I combined two of your answers here (THANKS to the posters) and now the window closes automatically.

#!/bin/bash # echo Hello & disown sleep 1 echo Closing in 3 sleep 1 echo Closing in 2 sleep 1 echo Closing in 1 sleep 1 xdotool getactivewindow windowkill 

Without the & disown and xdotool getactivewindow windowkill, just by using «exit» at the end, nothing happened! Thank you again!

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close the terminal without terminating the process

For 1, see askubuntu.com/q/106351/158442. There’s no easy way to restore if you haven’t used screen or tmux before starting the process. 2. Check whether the process is still running using pgrep , top or some other process monitoring tool.

A similar question with various good answers and lots of votes can be found at unix.stackexchange.com/q/4004/163108

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For 1. you need to send your running process to the background and remove the associated job from current shell.

• Press Ctrl + Z and type bg to send the installation process to the backgroud
• then type disown .

You can now close the terminal, the process will still be alive. You can open another terminal and check its process id with ps -aef

In my case the process id is 14426 . Unfortunately there’s no easy way to reattach it to another terminal (See How to attach terminal to detached process?) unless you used something based on screen .

For 2. You can use the following command:

while kill -0 14426 >/dev/null 2>&1; do sleep 5 ; done ; echo "ok" 

It will print ok when the process is over from an other terminal. You can of course change this echo command with something more complex.

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