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ctrl-alt-del for OSX?
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Hi. I'm looking for a program I saw mentioned a few weeks ago. Unfortunately I can't for the life of me remember the name. Searching Version Tracker and Mac Update shows nothing.
Basically it was a program that gives you something like ctrl-alt-del in XP. You hit a set of key combinations and the frontmost application is terminated. This is useful for when the GUI of a badly behaving application takes things over and keeps all GUIs from working.
Anyone know the name of the app I'm talking about?
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Join Date: Dec 2001
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"Think Different. Like The Rest Of Us."
iBook G4/1.2GHz | 1.25GB | 60GB | Mac OS X 10.4.2
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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what a handy program ~ I used to just press Shift, Apple Key & Z. ( I changed the key combo with fruitmenu) but now I'll do the ever so common Ctrl Alt Delete
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Does it not work with 10.2.4? I installed it but hitting ctrl-alt-del doesn't seem to do anything. I have a Microsoft keyboard though as well. I wonder if the MS software driver may be interferring with it.
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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There's always OS X's built in command-option-escape which gives you the Force quit menu, but maybe escapepod was somehow more robust...
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Is there anyway to do that for the entire system?
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Ctrl Alt Delete doesn't work. It just opens and thats it...
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Join Date: Feb 2001
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In escapepod it's not the delete key above the cursor arrows, it's the delete key above the back slash key.
This utility is handy if you want to:
Force logout (very handy): COMMAND-OPTION-CONTROL-DELETE
Kill Frontmost Application (in full screen applications Force Quit doesn't appear): CONTROL-ALT-DELETE
Kill Dock: SHIFT CONTroL ALT DELTE.
Very cool. Works in 10.2.4.
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Ah. So it is not ctrl-alt-del it is ctrl-alt-bs.
I'll try that when I get back home.
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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Originally posted by clarkgoble:
Ah. So it is not ctrl-alt-del it is ctrl-alt-bs.
I'll try that when I get back home.
The app works for me all the time except for when I really need it. When my computer freezes solid (I think I still have the Ti-screen horizontal line freeze) it doesn't do anything.
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Join Date: Jul 2002
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Originally posted by mrtew:
The app works for me all the time except for when I really need it. When my computer freezes solid (I think I still have the Ti-screen horizontal line freeze) it doesn't do anything.
Same for me. When games like Cro-Mag Rally hard freeze, escapepod doesn't help. It's nice to have a shortcut to restart the Dock, though.
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