Plus the fact that any running application will have a little black
triangle under it on the dock and they're really easy to see. I'm
using my 14 inch iBook right now and can plainly see that the Finder,
Dashboard, Safari and Mail are running. And like Greg said, a really
simple way to switch between them if clicking on the dock is just too
hard is command tab (keep holding command and hit tab until you get
the app you want), you can also quit apps that way....command tap to
get to the app you want to quit and keep holding down the command key
but type q instead of tab....it quits. X is very simple. Another
way (a little more complicated but it makes you feel as though you
have TOTAL control) is to launch terminal and type 'top', this lists
all running apps with their process ID. Find your application and
note it's ID number, type q to quit top. Now at the terminal command
prompt type kill (process ID number) and the application ends. You
can also shutdown and restart from the command line. Couldn't do
that in OS 9.
Hope this helps,
Tim
On Oct 20, 2005, at 10:35 AM, Tom Baker wrote:
On Oct 20, 2005, at 8:19 AM, Greg Burkman wrote:
. . . . .and the Dock really sucks when you're under the gun and
_need to know_ NOW what applications are running (the Application
Switcher was cleaner, much faster and a better solution) . . .
Here's a trick that is at least as fast for doing the same thing in
X: just hold down the command key while you hit Tab and you'll
instantly see what apps are running, and further tapping of the Tab
key will highlight them one after the other. Let go of the Tab key
when you've highlighted the one you want and it's instantly at the
fore.
How much faster can you get than that?
Tom
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