[CUBE] keyboard restart

[Marc Stergionis]

At about 12:02 PM +0100 on 3/14/03, Joost van de Griek wrote:
>On 2003-03-13 23:22, Marc Stergionis wrote:
>
>>  Christopher Hack wrote:
>>
>>>  if force quit won't work, is there any way at all of restarting a cube from
>>>  the apple pro keyboard?
>>
>>  Press Control-Eject ... the *very* bottom left key and the *very* top right
>>  key. This will bring up a dialog box within which the default is shut down
>>  (return). Or you can press "escape" to cancel, "r" to restart or 
>>"s" to sleep.
>>  Nifty :)
>
>And Control-Command-Eject (the "three-fingered-salute") will force a restart
>without going through that dialog.

Only in OS 9, not X.

>  However, sometimes the system just won't
>respond to the keyboard, and the last resort is to press (touch) and hold
>the Power button. Or, of course, use the restart button on the bottom.

I've never had OS X not respond to keyboard commands, ie. force-quit 
an app or control-eject to do a restart/shutdown.

>
>>  Yes, this will shut down and start the computer. However it's a force quit
>>  that's virtually guaranteed to corrupt files, whether you're using 
>>OS 9 or 10.
>>  Not the best way. If you must do this, you'll also want to run DFA 
>>for OS9 or
>>  fsck for OS 10 to fix what you did.
>
>True, but sometimes there's just no other option, if the computer won't
>respond to any other means.

That's where I like OS X better!

:)

-ms
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