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Ctrl+Alt+ESC and click the window of the game


No. That does different things in different desktop window managers.

In KDE it changes the cursor to a kill-cursor.

In Cinnamon it kills and restarts the GPU renderer.

Neither cleanly expresses what I want to do: kill a process which doesn't have a window but is owned by one which does.




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