FLATPAK-KILL(1)

💅 flatpak-kill — the manual page, bestie edition

okay so you opened the flatpak-kill page from the flatpak manual set (it lives in section 1 of the man pages, and the header literally just says FLATPAK KILL(1) twice because man pages are extra like that). here's the whole thing, no skips, no cap 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

flatpak-kill — stop a running application. that's it. that's the job. it's giving "end the program, respectfully" 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

flatpak kill INSTANCE

one command, one argument, zero drama 💅

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

it stops a running Flatpak instance. boom. done. 🌸

now, INSTANCE is flexible and honestly kind of iconic — it can be either:

• the numeric instance ID of a running Flatpak, or
• the application ID of a running Flatpak.

and if you're sitting there like "bestie how do i even find the instance IDs" — not me forgetting to tell you — you literally use flatpak ps to look up the instance IDs of the running flatpaks. it's a whole ecosystem, iykyk 🔥

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

here's everything it understands, one by one, no skips:

• -h, --help — show the help options and then exit. the "wait what does this do again" button 🙈
• -v, --verbose — print debug information while the command is being processed. it's giving "tell me everything that's happening" 💀
• --ostree-verbose — print OSTree debug information while the command is being processed. deeper. nerdy. lowkey obsessed with it ✨

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✨ EXAMPLES ✨

here's the whole vibe in action, killing the Todo app like a main character:

$ flatpak kill org.gnome.Todo

periodt. 💖

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

go read these next, they're all linked up:

• flatpak(1)
• flatpak-run(1)
• flatpak-ps(1)

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quick vibe check: INSTANCE isn't optional, and it has to actually be a running Flatpak — either its numeric instance ID or its application ID. if you don't know which IDs exist, that's literally what flatpak ps is for. no guessing 🫶

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okay that's the whole page, every flag, every argument, every example, all of it 💜 this one came out of the flatpak manual collection as page FLATPAK KILL(1) — so if you ever forget, just hit up man flatpak-kill and we can do this whole thing again. bye bestie, go kill something (a process, obviously) 🌈⭐