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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Activity Monitor: memory question
Date: 26 Oct 2015 20:39:38 GMT
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On 2015-10-26, Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
> On 10/26/15, 9:36 AM, in article d97354Fe71tU1@mid.individual.net, "Jolly
> Roger" <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
>>> On 2015-10-25 18:45, Jolly Roger wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I'm still running Yosemite at the moment. You don't just select the
>>>> process and click the quit button in El Capitan?
>>> 
>>> Which button is that ? Some of the unlabelled button that I have no idea
>>> what they will do if I click on them ? Used to be that Apple's GUI was
>>> very good at indicating what a button would do.
>> 
>> Hovering over the button tells you what it does - in this case, "Force a
>> process to quit". Seems very straightforward to me.
>
> Well, it does also allow a standard Quit.

The behavior has not changed from Snow Leopard in this respect. The
button is effectively the same button with a different look.

>>> Will that give me a choice
>>> to kill or send a stop request to the process or just kill it ? There is
>>> no indicatiobn of what it will do. For all I know the "X button just
>>> closes the window.
>> 
>> It has given you that choice for years, and it has not changed in El
>> Capitan as far as I know.
>
> The fly over text does make it seem like it might just force quit with no
> further notice. 

It's been that way since Snow Leopard. Nothing new here. He's playing
dumb to troll.

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