A small app that utilized an NSTask object whose system command would be 'killall -u <your short username here> -m <regex>'.

Where the regex would probably exclude processes that did not include 'login' or anything 'launchd'. This would keep the reaper from killing your loginwindow process as well!



Phil Faber wrote:
Yes I agree it could be most annoying in the majority of cases to quit other people's apps!

All I'm trying to achieve is a tiny app that only quits open apps and then quits itself; the purpose being when I want to release as much memory and disc space as possible before I run another memory / processor intensive app. I could just quit each one individually but I guess I'm lazy!

I'm not suggesting anything more sinister!

Thanks to you & everyone for the advice.

Phil




On 28 Aug 2008, at 12:12, Rob Keniger wrote:

On 28/08/2008, at 8:36 PM, Phil Faber wrote:

Is there a simple way to quit all running applications?

Basically I want to achieve the same result as the first stage of hitting 'shut down' (closing all applications) without actually shutting down the system.


You could get the launched applications by using [[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] launchedApplications] and then send each of them a Quit Apple Event.

But why would you want to do this? It is possibly one of the most annoying things you could do to someone's machine and you would want to have a very, very good reason for it.

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