Kill window or application just like linux do

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Published on 2009-11-05T14:18:29Z Indexed on 2010/03/20 19:01 UTC
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Is there any way to kill or force closed a particular hanging window or hanging application by selecting it with some hotkey? Similar to Ctrl+Alt+Esc and select window in Ubuntu?

(I may be misremembering the exact key shortcut used in Ubuntu; I just remember some key combination does that.)

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