find the process id of an application in linux

In one of my previous posts, I talked about killing unresponsive processes in Linux. It is pretty straightforward to find the process ids of applications if you're the only user, but if that's not the case you have to find a clever way. Assume that we want to find the process id of bash. We write

ps -A

to the terminal for seeing all active processes but we don't have 1 hour to inspect all processes. We just want to see the process id of bash. We will use the pgrep command which's basically a grep variant for processes.

pgrep bash

will give us the process id (PID) of bash.

italics! everywhere!

Today, I saw that Google's font is in italics and another website's font is in italics and some application's font is in italics; what a lovely coincidence! I had no idea how this happened, but fonts switched to italic mode without asking my opinion. The odd thing's that Firefox doesn't have this problem. For fixing this, I downloaded arial font and installed it. I was planning to download and install all vista fonts, but installing the arial font fixed the problem.