Take the 2-minute tour ×  Some applications only allow one
running instance (like eclipse, if you want to use the same
workspace). So if I log in from another location, I have to
kill/close the application that was open when I previously
logged in from another location.  I always use kill command to
kill the running process. But, if you kill a process, it might
not save some states that are useful for future usage. However,
if you "close" it properly by clicking on the close button, for
example, it will save the states properly.  Is there a way to
properly "close" an application from command line? I know this
can vary from applications, so let's be a bit more generic: how
to send a signal to another running application, and this signal
works just as if we click the "close" button in the top bar?
share|improve this question Should we assume that accessing the
desktop remotely with VNC and then graphically clicking close is
too much overhead. –  Brian Swift Mar 31 '12 at 5:53 add comment
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