[CUBE] keyboard restart

[john breedlove]

On Friday, March 14, 2003, at 11:28  PM, Marc Stergionis wrote:

> 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.
>

It does. Locks right up.
>>
>>>  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!
>
> :)
>
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