[SOLVED] openbox - force quit in menu

I just posted about something else in openbox, so sorry about this. I did a little searching, and again, I wasn't able to find anything..
I know in gnome there is the Force Quit applet, but is there any command that I can add to the openbox menu to get the same thing?
I've tried xkill, that doesn't seem to be working for me.
Thanks in advance!
Last edited by skai161 (2011-03-24 01:41:26)

Inxsible wrote:
your command in the menu will be
urxvt -e "killall -s9 appName"
Obviously if you use any terminal other than rxvt-unicode, then you will have to adjust accordingly
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