Eclipse hanging, how to kill it properly?

Issue

Sometimes my Eclipse hangs and I need to kill it violently. However, I have been unable to do it properly. It seems that kill -9 does not actually shut it down in a proper way since I can still see the hanged window. What command sequence would kill my Eclipse properly so I could restart it?

I am running Ubuntu 12.10 and Eclipse 4.2(Juno).

Solution

You need to kill the javaw process on which Eclipse runs (usually it is the one with about 1GB memory usage :) )

Answered By - Michal Borek