[wellylug] ctrl-Z stopping PROCESSES

[Rob Stockley]

On Sunday 23 May 2004 17:51, Brenda O'Hagan wrote:
> i have grip ripping and oggenc-ing a CD. I'd quite like to pauseng for a
> little while and unpause later.
>
> i know i can stop a process with ctrl-z in a xterm, and later fg it to
> start again.
> can i do something simular with X11 apps that i launched from the KDE menu?

I've never needed to do this but couldn't you use the following from a 
console,

kill -SIGSTOP pid

kill -SIGCONT pid

where pid is the process id of the process you want to suspend. Use 

ps auwx | grep processname

to find the pid you are looking for. Finally be careful you don't get the pid 
wrong and stop something that shouldn't be stopped. 

HTH
Rob