To quit (close) a Mac app normally, choose Quit from the app's menu in the menu bar, or press Command (⌘)-Q. If the app doesn't quit, follow these steps to force the app to quit.
How to force an app to quit
This entry was posted in Code Life and tagged Kill a port, Mac, terminal, web, web development on September 26, 2014 by cheonhyang. Post navigation ← Bootstrap UI datepicker only open once. Not shown up the second time. Google App Engine: How to select entity by key in Datastore Viewer →. Press Command+Option+Escape keys on your Mac computer (it’s just like using Ctrl+Alt+Del on a PC) A window will come up showing names of the running apps. Select the app that you want to close. Click Force Quit button. Fortunately, this can be solved quite easily. To kill program Mac OS X terminal on Leopard / Snow leopard / Lion do the following commands: Get the ID of the program ps -A grep name of program you want to close Kill the program. This will give you the number of the processes found (if any). Now just close them with this command.
Press these three keys together: Option, Command, and Esc (Escape). Or choose Force Quit from the Apple menu in the upper-left corner of your screen. (This is similar to pressing Control-Alt-Delete on a PC.)
Then select the app in the Force Quit window and click Force Quit.
You can even force the Finder to quit, if it stops responding: Select Finder in the Force Quit window, then click Relaunch.
- Using Terminal is an option to force quit applications using its command line interface. Terminal also has a utility called 'top' that you can often use to pinpoint the process behind the problems.
- I use an app called Activity Monitor. That’s the app you’ll use to see all current processes on your computer, and manage them accordingly. Call up Spotlight by pressing and holding Command and space.
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