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From: dorayme on 20 Mar 2010 18:06 In article <ho3ehk$2vs$1(a)news.albasani.net>, Richard Blaine <rick(a)nospam.biz> wrote: > Until then, I guess I'll keep using rt click|<quit> on the dock icons... If you prefer keys to mousing, hold the Command key down, watch the screen and hit Q when anything but Finder is selected, if Finder is selected hit Tab again to skip it. Pity Apple did not simply have a built in default to press yet another function key to quit all, or there be a way of *selecting all but Finder* in the Command Tab horizontal icons show that comes up. -- dorayme
From: dorayme on 20 Mar 2010 18:10 In article <ho3g99$2kt$1(a)speranza.aioe.org>, Tempuser <tempuser(a)vacationmail.com> wrote: > On 3/20/10 3:26 PM, Richard Blaine wrote: > > Richard Blaine wrote: > >> Any quick way/shortcut to close five or six currently running apps > >> under 10.6.2 without having to manually shut down each one? > > > > Thanks for all the suggestions, even the ones that require a chicken > > dance. Best options look like OP's freeeware apps, I'll take a look at > > them when I get a chance. > > > > Until then, I guess I'll keep using rt click|<quit> on the dock icons... > Try Cmd - Option - ESC. Select all the programs you want to quit. What is theadvantage of this over the doc mouse way or command tab way if you can't select all at once in the Force Quit window (you can't in Tiger at least).? -- dorayme
From: Tempuser on 20 Mar 2010 18:31 On 3/20/10 4:10 PM, dorayme wrote: > In article<ho3g99$2kt$1(a)speranza.aioe.org>, > Tempuser<tempuser(a)vacationmail.com> wrote: > >> On 3/20/10 3:26 PM, Richard Blaine wrote: >>> Richard Blaine wrote: >>>> Any quick way/shortcut to close five or six currently running apps >>>> under 10.6.2 without having to manually shut down each one? >>> >>> Thanks for all the suggestions, even the ones that require a chicken >>> dance. Best options look like OP's freeeware apps, I'll take a look at >>> them when I get a chance. >>> >>> Until then, I guess I'll keep using rt click|<quit> on the dock icons... >> Try Cmd - Option - ESC. Select all the programs you want to quit. > > What is theadvantage of this over the doc mouse way or command > tab way if you can't select all at once in the Force Quit window > (you can't in Tiger at least).? > I'm just trying to give the guy some options for a force quit of all applications. CMD - Option - ESC is only available in 10.5 and 10.6. AFter pressing those 3 keys, you get a dialog box that lists all the open apps. You can easily select all the apps or just the ones you want to force quit.
From: Jeffrey Goldberg on 20 Mar 2010 18:32 On 2010-03-20 11:02 AM, OP wrote: > "nospam" <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote in message > news:200320100843183496%nospam(a)nospam.invalid... >> In article <ho2q0j$lbt$1(a)news.albasani.net>, Richard Blaine >> <rick(a)nospam.biz> wrote: >> >>> Any quick way/shortcut to close five or six currently running apps under >>> 10.6.2 without having to manually shut down each one? >> >> cmd-tab and press q when the desired app is selected. repeat until all >> of the desired apps are quit. > > So the answer is, "No". I find this technique quicker than just about anything else I can imagine. Give it a try. And note that you don't have to wait for one program to quit before tabbing on to the next. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://goldmark.org/jeff/ I rarely read HTML or poorly quoting posts Reply-To address is valid
From: nospam on 20 Mar 2010 18:41
In article <ho3icc$676$1(a)speranza.aioe.org>, Tempuser <tempuser(a)vacationmail.com> wrote: > I'm just trying to give the guy some options for a force quit of > all applications. CMD - Option - ESC is only available in 10.5 > and 10.6. nonsense. it's available in every version of os x. > AFter pressing those 3 keys, you get a dialog box that > lists all the open apps. You can easily select all the apps or > just the ones you want to force quit. which means unsaved changes are lost, and a risk of data corruption in some cases. |