10.4.3 and force quit

I tried to force quit out of a program in 10.4.3 with
command+shift+escape but it did not work.
Any other ways?

 

cmd+option+escape ?

 

As far as I know, Cmd-Option-Esc is the sequence to bring up the "Force
Quit" menu.

 

Also, you can "right click" (ctl-click on one-button mouses) on the
unresponsive app's dock icon, which will bring up a force-quit option.

 

If you start the 'activity monitor' it has an option to force quit an app.

 

Option-Command-Esc brings up Force Quit Applications for me.

I don't get a Force Quit menu when I Option-click on dock icons;
does that somehow only work when they are in some special state?
Control-click gets me a menu that has "Quit" on it.

 

Control-click to get the dock's contextual menu, then while it's open
press the option key and quit will change to force quit. If the program
is not responding (either because it's busy or has crashed) then the
default option is force quit.

I don't remember anyone mentioning this yet in this thread, but you can
also open the force quit window via the Apple menu. The catch is that if
the application you're using has crashed then it's menu bar probably
isn't working, so you need to switch to another application and use the
Apple menu from there.

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You have to Option-click and hold the mouse button down until the menu
comes up.

 

That doesn't seem to work on my system (latest Tiger): holding down
the mouse on Option-click brings up the same menu as Control-click.
Someone else has said that, from that menu, you can Option-click
on the "Quit" item to make it do a Force Quit.

But I've never had any problem accessing the Force Quit Applications
menu from Option-Command-Esc (although sometimes you must switch
to another application first).

 

That's strange. If you click on the dock icon and hold the mouse down,
you should get a menu (just like Cntr-click). Pressing and releasing the
option key should change two things: 'Quit' becomes 'Forde Quit' and
'Hide' becomes 'Hide Others'. The rest of the menu stays the same.
That's with the latest Tiger (but has been like this for a long time).

 

Weird: sometimes it works, exactly like you say, and sometimes it doesn't!
Maybe it has something to do with the timing of the click and the shift.
Or maybe there was something wrong with my keyboard or something.

 

Correction: You have to option-control-click or option-right-click, and
you don't have to hold the button down.

Or you can just control-click or right-click, and *then* hold down the
option key. While the Dock contextual menu is displayed, you can press or
release the Option key to see whichever set of commands you want.

 

Sigh. Don't "correct" me, I know what I'm talking about. BOTH methods
are possible. CNTR-click brings up the menu immediately, click and hold
brings it up after a short delay.