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From: nospam on 21 Mar 2010 04:13 In article <dorayme-6C05F0.19102421032010(a)news.albasani.net>, dorayme <dorayme(a)optusnet.com.au> 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. > > Please give instructions, then, on how to *select all* on Tiger > in the Force Quit Applications window. he didn't say anything about selecting all apps, and there's no way to do that in 10.5 anyway. cmd-opt-esc is available in all versions of os x. that's all. prior to that it quits the frontmost app.
From: dorayme on 21 Mar 2010 04:16 In article <slrnhqaleh.1g29.g.kreme(a)cerebus.local>, Lewis <g.kreme(a)gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote: > In message <dorayme-CB1E45.09065121032010(a)news.albasani.net> > dorayme <dorayme(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote: > > 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. > > Why would anyone waste time on something like that? It is not useful, and > only some minuscule and insignificant portion of the user base would > ever be interest in that. If it is not something many would want, OK. I know sometimes I want to clear all apps prior to some operations like backups and other things but don't want to bother to have to log back in. Yes, I do the command tab like many of you. Do this latter often yourself? If so, why would it be a such waste of time to be able to do it all in one hit without the cost of having to log back in? How many things are built into X that *almost no one* uses? Are they therefore a waste of time for Apple to provide them? Perhaps you are too impressed by the mob rule aspects of democracies? -- dorayme
From: dorayme on 21 Mar 2010 04:18 In article <michelle-5179A3.16390220032010(a)nothing.attdns.com>, Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > 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. > > I believe that it is available in all versions of OS X. Are you sure that Select All is available? Not in Tiger on my machine though possibly I miss something here? -- dorayme
From: Warren Oates on 21 Mar 2010 08:54 In article <dorayme-CB1E45.09065121032010(a)news.albasani.net>, dorayme <dorayme(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote: > 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. kill -9 `ps x | grep -v grep | grep /Applications | awk '{print $1}'` Those are "backticks" at the beginning and end. Save your work, you may need to reboot. This assumes your apps are in the /Applications directory. Do this at your own risk. -- Very old woody beets will never cook tender. -- Fannie Farmer
From: Jeffrey Goldberg on 21 Mar 2010 12:02
On 2010-03-20 8:43 PM, OP wrote: > 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. That's not how I read the query. That certainly would require a different answer, but then we need to ask what is meant by "all". Should we quit the Finder as well? What about various daemons running as the user? -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://goldmark.org/jeff/ I rarely read HTML or poorly quoting posts Reply-To address is valid |