Best practice to identify and kill hanging process, when system hangs and reacts slowly on user input?
- by NES
Recently when I tried to open a video with VLC, my system slowed down, the open applications webbrowser, VLC and filemanager and others didn't react any longer. The mouse just reacted still very slowly.
On a windows machine i would press a keycombi CTRL-ALT-DEL to open the taskmanager, search the process which caused the hang and kill it.
Since i'm fairly new with the use of linux i haven't figured out the best practice for solve such a situation in Ubuntu.
Which quick and effective way would you recommend to identify the hanging process and close it, when the system already reacts very slowly on user input?