CTRL+ALT+DEL Alternative for OSX?

[thestaton]

I have been using OSX for nearly 2 years now and for the first time I have had a program ( X-Plane ) completely lock up my system. What can you do if all you get is the beach ball of death?

Thanks.

 

[Lau]

I have been using OSX for nearly 2 years now and for the first time I have had a program ( X-Plane ) completely lock up my system. What can you do if all you get is the beach ball of death?

Thanks.

Apple+Option(Alt)+Esc.

 

[Silentwave]

Like Lau said, if you lock up Cmd-opt-esc is your friend

Just wondering though, what happened w/ X-plane? what system specs are you running?

curious, i guess. been running X-Plane since v.5 or 6 on both win/mac

 

[thestaton]

X-Plane 8.40 on my 20" iMac Duo with 2 gigs of ram & 256mb video card.
I went to install the 737-800 made by the xpgoodwayteam and everytime I tried to load a quick flight it would lock the whole system up.

thanks for the help

 

[maxrobertson]

And if you can't see anything, you can hold down shift while you do it to automatically force quit without the dialogue

 

[Patch^]

Apple+Option(Alt)+Esc.

That will do it

But if you want something like the Task manager in Windows, you can use activity monitor in you utility folder. You can also apply a shortcut for it to get quicker access for it. Hope it helps.

 

[dsnort]

I'm still fairly new to the Mac, but when I had an app freeze up, I was still able to get a contextual menu from the icon on the dock which gave me the option to force quit.

 

[Fiveos22]

I'm still fairly new to the Mac, but when I had an app freeze up, I was still able to get a contextual menu from the icon on the dock which gave me the option to force quit.

Protected memory is great, isn't it?