applications to close completly by pressing the 'x'?

[j2048b]

I have a buddie who has an iMac and if he closes a program by pressing the red 'x' in the upper left corner

it closes the app completly,

i have to close the app then go to the finder bar and press on the name of the open app and go down to quit in order for it to quit completly,

how do you set it up to close completly by pressing the 'x'?

(example: if firefox is open, i hit the red 'x' and the program closes, but in the finder bar on top of the screen, it shows the name still and in the dock bar it shows a little white speck under the app and it is not closed completly,


how do i just hit the red x and have it completly close?

what setting do i change?

thanks

 

[yoyo5280]

I don't know of any way of doing this...only some apps can do this (eg system preferences,iPhoto)

 

[Tomorrow]

As I understand it, it's apps that can only have one window open that behave this way - although I might be wrong.

I like that the OS keeps a program running when the last window is closed.

 

[r.j.s]

As I understand it, it's apps that can only have one window open that behave this way - although I might be wrong.

That's right.

This has been discussed to death, recently even. Please search.

 

[dsnort]

Alternately, keyboard shortcut CMD+Q closes current app. Learn to use this and you'll find it's both simpler and quicker than trying to center up on some little icon.

 

[175170]

As I understand it, it's apps that can only have one window open that behave this way - although I might be wrong.

I like that the OS keeps a program running when the last window is closed.

Like a previous poster said, that is correct.
Your buddy must've been quiting an app that can only be ran in one window, so closing the window closes the whole app.

Alternately, keyboard shortcut CMD+Q closes current app. Learn to use this and you'll find it's both simpler and quicker than trying to center up on some little icon.

Yeah. These keyboard shortcuts are very useful.
CMD=
So basically, +Q quits the entire application, while +W only quits the window you are in.
Hope that helped!

 

[j2048b]

Thanks everyone!!

i will try the suggested keyboard shortcuts!!