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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Subject: Re: kill current app -- what keys?
Message-ID: <1991May30.222817.4264@neon.Stanford.EDU>
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References: <1991May27.075632.6097@hawk.cs.ukans.edu> <1991May28.085131.23077@fwi.uva.nl> <2224@seti.inria.fr> <1991May29.202849.15414@verity.com> <1991May30.194327.25333@mmm.serc.3m.com>
Date: Thu, 30 May 1991 22:28:17 GMT
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In article <1991May30.194327.25333@mmm.serc.3m.com>, pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby) writes:
|> In article <1991May29.202849.15414@verity.com> anders@verity.com (Anders Wallgren) writes:
|> >One thing to keep in mind when doing the command-option-escape quit is
|> >that it won't always kill the top application.  Instead, like MacsBug,
|> >it will kill whatever application is swapped in at the time.  Pay
|> >attention to the appname in the little dialog or you may end up
|> >killing the wrong one.
|> 
|> Odd; when I switch to the Finder and hit CMD-OPT-ESC, I get a dialog
|> asking if I'd like to kill the _next_ application in the list, NOT the
|> Finder.  I.e. if I have GIFConverter and 4th Dimension open (opened in
|> that order) and switch to the Finder, then press CMD-OPT-ESC, the dialog
|> says "Kill GIFConverter?", not "Kill Finder" as I might expect.
|> 
|> Or am I hallucinating?  When I tried this repeatedly I could not get the
|> Finder to show up as the application to be killed.
I tried a few times before Finder came up - it does depend which app
is currently executing. Presumably, Finder is kind to background
apps when it's not busy. The actual application offered for the kill
is not consistently the same one.
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu
