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Recover from VLC full-screen-mode freezes Apps
When viewing a movie in full screen mode under Mac OS X, VLC freezes if you pause the movie for a minute or two. Because you are in the full screen mode, you cannot force the program to quit and you cannot reach out for the Dock. One solution to this that I have tried out successfully is to construct a one-line script:
kill -9 `ps -auwx | grep VLC/VLC | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
And then bind that script to a keystroke, for example, in QuicKeys. That way, you will be able to quit VLC even when you are in the full screen mode.
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Recover from VLC full-screen-mode freezes
Authored by: Hes Nikke on Sep 23, '03 10:35:14AM
killall VLC
and if that doesn't work
killall -9 VLC

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Recover from VLC full-screen-mode freezes
Authored by: Toc on Sep 23, '03 02:31:42PM

This hint got my attention because I have been wanting to make a script that will kill certain full screen games.

Is there a way to kill all processes but the finder with one script?



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Recover from VLC full-screen-mode freezes
Authored by: Mikey-San on Sep 23, '03 10:48:31PM

Hmm.

http://sial.org/code/shell/tips/kill-9/



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Recover from VLC full-screen-mode freezes
Authored by: stukoch on Sep 23, '03 11:24:47AM

Or just Apple-Option-Escape, then hit Return once or twice

-Stu



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Recover from VLC full-screen-mode freezes
Authored by: rael9 on Sep 23, '03 04:21:16PM
Or you could install EscapePod from Ambrosia Software and use that instead. With it running, if you type Control-Option-Delete it kills the frontmost app, if you type Command-Control-Option-Delete it forces a logout.

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ssh and nice are friends
Authored by: voldenuit on Sep 25, '03 05:18:43PM

When the Mac is "loaded", it can take a while, before any of the aforementioned methods will get it done.

Logging in from a nearby machine on the local network to kill the runaway process tends to work pretty well.

Having a reniced -19 ssh-session already open before Bad Things (tm) happen, is even quicker.



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