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If I only could to quit mac apps with a single click...

• glasshead969 14y ago
  Apple knows this has been a issue for users moving from windows. They chose to solve it in a different way though. OS X uses auto-terminate, killing apps which haven't been used in a while. I think the algorithm was too aggressive when lion released but I think they made it a bit saner in mountain lion.
• chc 14y ago
  Do you find that you quit apps so frequently that going through a one-level menu is a hardship? Because I don't know a lot of people who use their computers that way.
  • zura 14y ago
    Yes, I actually do it quite frequently (in Windows and Linux).
• epmatsw 14y ago
  Command+Q?
  • calgaryeng 14y ago
    This. I don't see why you'd spend hours writing a system utility to close apps on a Mac that provides a perfectly easy to use keyboard shortcut.
    • zura 14y ago
      Because I want to close apps with a single [mouse] click with my right hand, without displacing my left hand to press that keyboard shortcut.
• jfb 14y ago
  Why do you want to quit an app so badly?
  • zura 14y ago
    >so badly Yes, so badly that I even wrote a small menu bar ("tray") utility labeled as "[ X ]". When clicked, it quits an app with the currently active window. But well, this is not an ideal replacement... I'm just very used to quit an app when I'm done working with it, no matter how soon I'll need to re-open it...
    • jfb 14y ago
      Interesting! It has never occurred to me that this would be important. I never quit apps, unless they're misbehaving (which is, admittedly, much more often than I'd like).