Killing an application when hung?

dscan99 · Dec 10, 2004

I realize its extremely rare for Macs to hang but yestertday while visting a site that needed a special font Safari was spinning its' wheels for a good hour. Is there an application (like Xkill on unix) that kills a window without rebooting the machine? I have a G4 iBook. I also tried to "ps -ef" on my terminal application to try and kill the process but the ps I have installed does not understand "-f". I get "illegal Operation -f."

Thanks in advance.

thecow · Dec 10, 2004

Hold down option, command and escape at the same time.

munkle · Dec 10, 2004

You can also click and hold the icon in the dock of the application you want to kill and then select force quit from the pop up menu. Or click on the Apple in the menu bar and select Force Quit, as well as using the short cut provided by thecow

PeterD42 · Dec 12, 2004

or see https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/100791/

dscan99 · Dec 12, 2004

PeterD42 said:
or see https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/100791/

haha... there it is! I was looking for this original thread I "lost" and so posted the link you sent me!!!

zimv20 · Dec 12, 2004

dscan99 said:
I also tried to "ps -ef" on my terminal application to try and kill the process but the ps I have installed does not understand "-f". I get "illegal Operation -f."

different flavors of unix have different implementations of ps which has different options.

on osx, the set i usually use to feed into grep is: -auxww

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