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From: Erik Richard Sørensen on 20 Mar 2010 19:46 Michelle Steiner wrote: > 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. > > I believe that it is available in all versions of OS X. At least is was in 10.2.8, which was my first OS X version... And is is also in both 10.3.x and 10.4.x... Cheers, Erik Richard -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Erik Richard Sørensen, Member of ADC, <mac-manNOSP(a)Mstofanet.dk> NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Text Processing - www.nisus.com OpenOffice.org - The Modern Productivity Solution - www.openoffice.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: Jolly Roger on 20 Mar 2010 20:33 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. That would force quit, which means any unsaved data in each application would be LOST. -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: Jolly Roger on 20 Mar 2010 20:34 In article <slrnhqaa9v.t22.g.kreme(a)cerebus.local>, Lewis <g.kreme(a)gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote: > In message <jollyroger-75B2AA.13500120032010(a)news.individual.net> > Jolly <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: > > You're borderline trolling, and you're dangerously close to the edge of > > my kill filter as well. But please do continue if you must. : ) > > Just kill file him now. He has nothing to say, is a total jackass, and > is also the worst kind of troll. Already done. -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: OP on 20 Mar 2010 21:43 "Jolly Roger" <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote in message news:jollyroger-908194.13473220032010(a)news.individual.net... > In article <4G8pn.18349$yk1.1098(a)newsfe20.iad>, > "OP" <Otto.Philips(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >> "Jolly Roger" <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote in message >> news:jollyroger-4482F5.13311420032010(a)news.individual.net... >> > In article <michelle-9CD0D7.10093620032010(a)nothing.attdns.com>, >> > Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: >> > >> >> In article <Wk6pn.16365$3D3.742(a)newsfe19.iad>, >> >> "OP" <Otto.Philips(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> > >> Any quick way/shortcut to close five or six currently running >> >> > >> apps >> >> > >> under >> >> > >> 10.6.2 without having to manually shut down each one? >> >> > > >> >> > > You could write a simple Applescript to do it. >> >> > >> >> > Maybe he's not a programmer. So your answer should have been, "No". >> >> >> >> This might do it: >> >> >> >> tell application "System Events" >> >> close (application processes whose background only is false) >> >> end tell >> > >> > Right. >> > >> > Or, if you want to be really fancy, and choose specifically which >> > applications you want to quit: >> > >> > -- begin script >> > tell application "System Events" >> > set appList to the name of every application process whose >> > background only is false >> > end tell >> > >> > choose from list appList with title "Quit Applications" with prompt >> > "Quit these applications:" OK button name "Quit Selected" with multiple >> > selections allowed >> > >> > repeat with nextApp in the result >> > tell application nextApp to quit >> > end repeat >> > -- end script >> >> I think the OP, (Hey!!! He has my name) said, "Any quick way/shortcut >> to >> close five or six currently running apps ". >> >> "Quick way" to me means pushing two keys. Not writing Apple code. > > Uh huh, and how would pressing two keys tell the computer *which* > applications to quit, exactly? The assumption I get from the OP is; he wants to quit all the applications at once. He does not want to pick and choose.
From: OP on 20 Mar 2010 21:45
"dorayme" <dorayme(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote in message news:dorayme-790314.06292021032010(a)news.albasani.net... > In article <ho2q0j$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? > > No. Thank you. Why were they all so afraid to admit it? |