agc@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Eric Palmer) (06/14/90)
Sometimes when I am in multifinder and I hava a program bomb, the mouse stops moving. I can press the button and than will work, highlighting an icon, etc. But the pointer will not change position. This has happened both when running someone else's programs and when I am working on programs of my own that I am debugging. After this happens, the only way I can get the mac to do anything is pressing the restart button. I don't like to do this. I was wondering if there was a fkey, or how one would create one, which would restart the mac nicely, so it would save all the changes to the desktop, etc? How else could this be done? Thanks Eric Palmer agc@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
philip@Pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) (06/15/90)
In article <11486@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, agc@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Eric Palmer) writes: > Sometimes when I am in multifinder and I hava a program bomb, the > mouse stops moving. I can press the button and than will work, highlighting > an icon, etc. But the pointer will not change position. This has happened > both when running someone else's programs and when I am working on programs of > my own that I am debugging. > > After this happens, the only way I can get the mac to do anything is pressing > the restart button. I don't like to do this. I was wondering if there was > a fkey, or how one would create one, which would restart the mac nicely, so it > would save all the changes to the desktop, etc? How else could this be done? I find it pretty useful to have a keyboard shortcut for shutdown and restart in the Finder. If you can make it back there, you can shut down / restart even if you've had the dreaded mouse freeze. (Use Resedit to hack in the keyboard shortcuts; I use OPTION-s and OPTION-r, i.e., hit COMMAND-OPTION-s to shut down - not something likely to happen by mistake). Philip Machanick philip@pescadero.stanford.edu