To close all windows of the app, press Option-Command-W.
Command-O: Open the selected item, or open a dialog to select a file to open. To minimize all windows of the front app, press Option-Command-M. Command-M: Minimize the front window to the Dock. To view the front app but hide all other apps, press Option-Command-H. Command-H: Hide the windows of the front app. To find the previous occurrence, press Shift-Command-G. Command-G: Find Again: Find the next occurrence of the item previously found. Command-F: Find items in a document or open a Find window. In some apps, you can undo and redo multiple commands. You can then press Shift-Command-Z to Redo, reversing the undo command. Command-V: Paste the contents of the Clipboard into the current document or app. Command-C: Copy the selected item to the Clipboard. Command-X: Cut the selected item and copy it to the Clipboard. 
How To Force Quit Program Mac Cut, copy, paste, and other common shortcuts
To use these keys as F1, F2, F3, or other standard function keys, combine them with the Fn key. If these functions aren't available on your keyboard, you might be able to reproduce some of them by creating your own keyboard shortcuts. This will terminate Google Chrome browser instantly.Some keys on some Apple keyboards have special symbols and functions, such as for display brightness, keyboard brightness, Mission Control, and more. Go ahead and type in the following command in Terminal: kill 9635 Note that the PID number for Google Chrome is 9635. The full command would look like this: ps -ax | grep Īnd in our case, it will be something like this: ps -ax | grep ChromeĪnd it should output the following in Terminal: Now, let’s say we want to force quit Google Chrome, we can make use of the grep command in conjunction with our ps -ax to get exactly the information about the process we want. Upon typing in ps -ax, you may get a long list of output of running processes that look something like the screenshot below:
Type the following command in Terminal: kill. To kill (force quit) a specific application, look for its name and note down the PID number. 
This will give you a list of all running process on your Mac along with other details like its respective PID number, elapsed running time, process name and process location.
Launch Spotlight Search with Command + Spacebar and search for Terminal. 
Choose the application you want to quit in the “Force Quick Application” dialogue box.Īlternatively, you can quit an application using shell command via Terminal. Press and hold the following keys: Command + Option + Esc. If your application is not responding, do the following: If you don’t want to wait it out, here are two ways how you can force quit an application that’s not responding. If your application is not responding or you encounter the Spinning Beach Ball of Death, chances are your application has crashed. Once in a while, the application you are working on may freeze (or hang).
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