"Karabiner_grabbe" still running even after quitting the program

[Ronin_TX]

Hello, 

I am in grad school, and due to COVID, I have been taking exams from home.

My school requires me to use a secure browser to take exams, and I have to quit every program before I can launch it. The other day I had issues starting my exam because the browser kept saying "Karabiner_grabbe" is still running in the background although I quit the program. 

How can I ensure nothing is running in the background?

Thank you

[raf]

Hi, You could try killing it in the "Activity Monitor" application.
When I look, there are two karabiner_grabber processes running.
One is owned by me, and Activity Monitor will let me kill that.
One is owned by root, so I can't kill it there.

Try killing the one that is owned by you, and see if that satisfies
your PII-harvesting "browser" (I can't bring myself to refer to it
as "secure", given the recent ProctorU data breach).

If not, it might mean that you have to kill the root-owned one from
the command line:

> ps auxwww | grep '^root.*karabiner_grabber'
root 87 0.1 0.0 4365080 3464 .../Karabiner-Elements/bin/karabiner_grabber

That will show the process id (second "word" i.e. 87).
Then you can kill it (with the root password):

> sudo kill 87

You might need to reboot afterwards to get Karabiner running again.

cheers,
raf

[covertop...@gmail.com]

Honestly, best solution is to make a separate user account on your computer, that doesn't have access to anything you do on your normal account. Ensures that security breaches won't affect you too badly.