Zet - How do I kill VS Code Server processes running?

How do I kill VS Code Server processes running?

Use pkill to targer VS Code Server processes owned by your user:

pkill -u ${yourusername} -f vscode

• -u yourusername - Only targets processes owned by that user(you wouldn’t want to kick anyone else off vscode)
• -f vscode - Matches against the full command line, catching for example node processes running under /.vscode-sever/..

eg.

pkill -u kevin -f vscode

This is useful when VS Code remote SSH leaves behind orphaned server processes, or when claude code decides to show changes in vscode because it believes it’s still open.

To preview what would be killed first, use pgrep with the same flags

pgrep -u kevin -f vscode

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