Mac Kindergarten

If you want to shut down or restart your Mac the confirmation dialog can be quite nagging. As you bring up the Apple menu, hold down the alt/option key.

This will shut down your Mac as you click on the menu item. Note, that the three dots after disappear as you press alt/option, indicating that it’s a direct command (i.e. no dialog is following when picking this menu item).

In the previous post we looked at the difference of closing a window and closing a program. Today we will look at the dark side of a closing a program - terminating it.

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