Quitting programs

Hi there, I am a very happy switcher
I've been using an imac for about three months now and really really love it!

I hope I can describe this so it makes sense... I have noticed that when I shut down some programs using the X the program doesn't shut down fully and I have to follow it with cmdQ. The dock shows a little dot beside open programs and this doesn't go away until I press cmdQ. Is there any way to shut them down fully when I hit the X?

I hope that makes sense, thanks in advance.

The x is to close the Window, not to quit the application.
To quit applications:
Command X
Right click dock icon and select quit
Select application in menu bar, and select quit in the scroll down menu

xbrenx said:

Hi there, I am a very happy switcher
I've been using an imac for about three months now and really really love it!

I hope I can describe this so it makes sense... I have noticed that when I shut down some programs using the X the program doesn't shut down fully and I have to follow it with cmdQ. The dock shows a little dot beside open programs and this doesn't go away until I press cmdQ. Is there any way to shut them down fully when I hit the X?

I hope that makes sense, thanks in advance.

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I think once you get to know cmd-Q -- you'll find that the quickest way to full quit a program. Doesn't get much quicker than that - easier and quicker than navigating the mouse to that little x. If you just want to shut a particular window - cmd-w is your friend (analogous to clicking the x)

Thank you both for your very quick replies
It all makes sense when you see it in black and white

You know, I wonder if quitting an application won't be a necessary step in Lion. Consider this:

1. The system can auto save documents.
2. The system can resume an app from exactly where you left off.
3. The little blue light under the app icons in the dock is turned off by default.

I'm beginning to wonder if this is going to make OS X more like iOS in that manually quitting apps won't be necessary anymore. Instead, if the system needs more resources to run an app you just opened, it will automatically quit another app you haven't used in a while. And since you can pick up right where you left off and you don't have to worry about saving anymore, it's not going to be a problem for most users.

J.Fo, yes you're probably right -- though I worry about how well the memory will be managed. Myself, I've been using computers so long that I can't leave a bunch of apps open (other than for work) and must compulsively quit apps when I'm done with them, a habit I learned in the old days when 64KB was a lot of RAM.

Same here Chas. When I was in high school; we had a couple of Apple IIs around the place. One had 16k and the others had 64k. We thought we were really doing something with those machines.

Oh we WERE, Sylvester! We were cogs in a machine that changed everything!

lol. I learned just enough Applesoft Basic on those machines to convince myself I did not want to make a living hard coding programs.

I am the same way unused apps must be turn off

Thread derailed or what? lol

6string said:

The x is to close the Window, not to quit the application.
To quit applications:
Command X
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OOps!