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In earlier versions of OS X (<= 10.3 (?)), ⌘Q when in the Finder quits it, just like any other application, which was a little disconcerting the first time you
by parenthesis 16y ago
In earlier versions of OS X (<= 10.3 (?)), ⌘Q when in the Finder quits it, just like any other application, which was a little disconcerting the first time you did it (by mistake).
- philwelch 16y agoThis wasn't the case at all, at least not on stock OS X (who knows what you could enable with haxies). You could certainly force quit the Finder, but it just relaunched immediately.
- parenthesis 16y agoWell, that's funny, because I'm using vanilla OS X 10.3.4 right now, and I just quit the Finder in the way that I said. Screenshots: http://www.alexmaslin.org/quit-finder.jpg http://www.alexmaslin.org/quit-finder.jpg http://www.alexmaslin.org/no-finder.jpg http://www.alexmaslin.org/no-finder.jpg It doesn't relaunch automatically. You either have to click on the Finder icon in the Dock, or otherwise it relaunches itself if you quit all other open applications.
- philwelch 16y agoThat's extremely funny, but I'm almost completely certain that's not as "vanilla" as you think it is. Perhaps it was enabled on the command line? It looks like defaults write com.apple.finder QuitMenuItem -bool YES will do the trick. So perhaps you're operating from a custom com.apple.finder preferences file.
- parenthesis 16y agoYes you are right. I have absolutely no recollection of tweaking this, but it seems it has been done. (I just checked a different, definitely unadulterated 10.3.x install, and it doesn't have the Finder quit menu item.) Thanks for correcting me.