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In windows you can hit control+alt+delete and show a list of all running programs. What is the command in OSX Panther to do this?
I need to force quit something in my menu bar and I can't seem to do this by right clicking.
 
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Do a command - option - esc to bring a force quit application. From there you may be able to terminate the program.
 
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Unfortunately that did not bring up this "uptime" thing in the menu bar. I think I'll uninstall it.
Thanks!
 
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You can also force quit through Activity Monitor in your Applications>Utilities folder.
 
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you can also run Activity Monitor, and see all sorts of information about active processes.

or for the UNIX-ly inclined:

ps (and its many options you can find in the man page)
 
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You can also use the top command to get more information.
 
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I just keep the Activity Monitor running in the dock. Pull up & show the Activity Monitor when necessary and set it to show Active processes. You can quit process from there.
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MacAddikt said:
you can also run Activity Monitor, and see all sorts of information about active processes.

or for the UNIX-ly inclined:

ps (and its many options you can find in the man page)
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this is the best way as for it shows EVERY THING running
 
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jessica said:
Unfortunately that did not bring up this "uptime" thing in the menu bar. I think I'll uninstall it.
Thanks!
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Menulets don't really count as applications...I think they're drawn by SystemUIServer or something.

Apple officially disapproves of menulets, other than its own. There's no "official" way for third parties to create them. This is probably either a symptom or a justification for that policy.
 
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technologist said:
Menulets don't really count as applications...I think they're drawn by SystemUIServer or something.

Apple officially disapproves of menulets, other than its own. There's no "official" way for third parties to create them. This is probably either a symptom or a justification for that policy.
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Really? There are so many menulets out there though! I LOVE synergy!!! And a reboot fixed my issue.
 
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The terminal top command is best. If you wanna stop one (looking at the CPU usage if it's insanely high is good cause to abort) use the kill -PID- where PID = process ID number (no dashes) kill PID -9 is absolute
 

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