Force Quit Window is Empty!

The other day I noticed that my iBook G4 seemed to be running rather ragged so I ran Disk Utilities from my Leopard disc which seemed to help.
But the sluggishness is back and on several occasions, I've been running a program (Safari, Finale 2005, Pages) that starts acting funny and I can't quit from within the program or using Ctrl + Click on the Dock Icon. Then I try Force Quit and then two things (may) happen:
1. When the Force Quit window appears it's totally empty -- not even the Finder appears and/or
2. the entire Menu Bar disappears from the desktop (I can still scroll across the Dock and Magnification works).
Is it time to run DiskWarrior or do I have a more serious problem on my hands?

You can try Disk Utility, but a Archive and Install may be the best option.

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Can't Switch Applications - Force Quit Window Empty

I'm having a strange problem that has now occurred twice. I'll be running X-Chat-Aqua chatting on IRC and go hit CMD-Tab to change applications, but instead of switching all I get is a alert sound.
I can bring the windows of other applications forward using expose, but I can't interact with them. X-Chat's menus remain on the menu bar and any typing still goes into X-Chat's input text box.
Typing cmd-option-escape brought up the Force Quit window, but there was nothing in it. The power button does not bring up the Restart/Sleep/Cancel/Shut Down dialog box. Selecting Restart or Shutdown from the Apple menu doesn't do anything. I finally end up holding down the power button and force the Macbook Pro to shut down. After a reboot it seems normal again.
I have seen some other strange behavior of X-Chat since going to Snow Leopard, but could it actually cause this much trouble?
Thanks in advance,
Joe.

No, I'm not sure that X-Chat-Aqua is fully compatible. I've been trying Colloquy, but just don't like the interface. There's been no work done on X-Chat-Aqua in quite awhile. It is a universal binary, but I think the last release was done during Tiger, possibly Leopard.

How to change the size of the force quit window?

When I open the force quit window, it fills my entire screen, and it is larger than the screen of the TFT monitor that I am using from time to time. How can I change its size back to original? The window is not resizable by dragging its border or clicking the green plus button in the title bar.
I don't know how the window got this size in the first place. All I know is that it happened during a crash where I closed a lot of other windows and where I accidentially clicked the green plus button of the force quit window instead of the red x.

Try rebuilding your Finder prefs...
Go to Finder "Go" menu hold the option key and choose Library. Then go to Preferences and trash these files:
com.apple.finder.plist
com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
Then, restart, or log out and in again.
(You will have to reset a few finder prefs the way you like them.)

My force quit window fills the entire screen. How can I resize it? OS 10.7.5.

My force quit window fills the entire screen. How can I resize it? I have iOS 10.7.5.

Click the "Green" button?
Or, Click and Drag the Lower-Right-Corner.
I've tried both on a Mac OS X 10.7.5 Lion system, and they both affected the Force Quit dialog box.

My 'Force Quit' window is blank

Since 2 days my computer hangs frequently. Everythings halts, keyboard input is impossible (you here a beep) and I can't shut it down.
When I try Force Quit the window is blank, so I don't see which app isn't responding.
Only way to shut it down is to use the Power button on the back.
I've run Disk Utilities, Disk Warrior and the Apple Hardware test and everything comes back ok now.
I've picked out a faulty DIMM and the HD I use as a TimeMachine was not ok, bot the DIMM was removed (I now have 12GB installed) and I repaired the HD and it came back ok.
Any one has any ideas as to what this might be?
Or should I install every thing all over again aka a clean install?
Message was edited by: ejpeg

Start with reinstalling Snow Leopard and see if that fixes things. If so, run Software Update, install everything listed, repeat until there aren't any more, repair permissions, and restart.

Force Quit window 'blank' and cannot use shutdown/restart in menu

I have a Dual G5 running 10.5.8.
Over the past 2 months I will have a situation where my computer will still work in individual applications, but
1. I cannot use apple-tab to change applications
2. I cannot select the restart/shutdown menu
3. option-apple-esc brings up the Force Quit menu, but its blank
I end up having to hard-restart the machine using the button on the front.
Anyone have ideas on what may be at the root of this?
I have created another user account but still get the error.
I have a new hard drive installed.
I have run /sbin/fsck/ -fy all is clean
I have run repair permissions
What next?

Hi
I have seen damaged/corrupted fonts cause similar issues. If you've introduced/downloaded new fonts in the last two months perhaps it's these that's causing the problems?
Have you tried booting from the installer disk and trying for an Archive & Install and selecting the Preserve Network users and Settings option? You could try using something more industrial like DiskWarrior first?
Whilst you have the chance make sure you have any relevant backups made and handy. Yes I know it's a brand new drive etc but you never know?
Tony

When I login, all of my desktop items are gone, the "Finder" icon is bouncing and a message asking to restore windows is blinking but unresponsive. I can't exit out of it. What do I do? I've tried force quitting, and it doesn't get rid of it.

When I login, all of my desktop items are gone, the "Finder" icon is bouncing and a message asking to restore windows is blinking but unresponsive. I can't exit out of it. What do I do? I've tried force quitting, and it doesn't get rid of this message. When I login to my husband's account, this message does not appear.

Hey sunnyday7!
Here is an article that can help you address this issue:
OS X: How to quit an unresponsive application using Force Quit
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3411
Additional Information
OS X automatically relaunches the Finder when it is quit. If the Finder is unresponsive, use Force Quit to relaunch it. Select Finder in the Force Quit Window or Dock, then click Relaunch.
Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities. Have a good one!
-Braden

When using my mac book pro, there's a window that comes up saying to force quit applications. i've done the updates cleaned out computer and have taken it in but it wont stop coming up.

when using my mac book pro, there's a window that comes up saying to force quit applications. i've done the updates cleaned out computer and have taken it in but it wont stop coming up. what can i do?

The force quit window appears when you:
a) type the key combination <CMD> + <OPT> + <ESC>
b) you select the menu item " > Force Quit..."

Force quitting open windows in safari

Every time I open Safari, I get a pop-up window that will not close. Cannot access reset Safari from drop down menu. Can only force Safari to quit. Is there a way to reset Safari or close these unwanted windows. Cannot do anything, go to other sites, access mail, etc.

Force Quit .
Press command + option + esc keys together at the same time. Wait.
When Force Quit window appears, select Safari if not already.
Press Force Quit button at the bottom of the window. Wait.
Safari will quit.
Relaunch Safari holding the shift key down.

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Is it OK to force quit finder. I cannot turn off my computer because finder is running empty trash, and has been for over 30 hours.

Hey jamesfromlakeway,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
It sounds like you want to know if you can Force Quit the Finder.
OS X: How to quit an unresponsive application using Force Quit
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3411
If the Finder is unresponsive, use Force Quit to relaunch it. Select Finder in the Force Quit Window or Dock, then click Relaunch.
Have a nice day,
Mario

Force quit Safari

hello everyone,
I have a curious problem with Safari. It has worked beautifully for me in Snow Leopard, so much so that I almost never launch Chrome or Firefox anymore. But, in the last 24 hours or so it's become erratic and unusable. I can't imagine anything I might have done to contribute to this problem. I often run Safari with three or four windows open, and a number of tabs on each window. Never been a problem until now. I believe the following to be the correct sequence of events since yesterday afternoon when I first noticed the problem.
I always have Safari running along with Mail, Prevue, TextEdit and a couple of other programs. Yesterday I was mailing a few parcels. I purchase postage electronically using a program called Endicia which tabulates the correct amount, validates the address etc. I have a Zebra 2844 thermal printer for this application. Two or three times in the last year while printing labels I have switched back and forth to another application (using the command+tab function) and have found myself with the dreaded screen freeze. Years ago we just pulled the plug when that happened but now with my laptop I usually just hold down the on/off button until the screen goes black and the computer turns off.
I had such a screen freeze yesterday. I turned the machine off and back on, and re-launched the programs I was using, including Safari. When launching Safari I immediately clicked on the history tab and opened all the windows from the last session. That's when the problem started. While navigating to a new page, either with a mouse click or using the command+L function and typing an address the program would respond and a few seconds later I had a spinning beach ball on my screen. I'd wait for a couple of seconds and then look up the force quit window to see if Safari had stopped responding, and it always had. I'd force quit the program and try again. After four tries I gave up and launched Firefox. I tried Safari again this morning, albeit without shutting down, and I encountered the same problem again. It worked for a minute or two and then it would stop responding.
An aside. I noticed yesterday after re-booting my machine that bluetooth was not functioning properly. At my office I have a bluetooth keyboard and mouse and neither would respond to a pairing request. I turned bluetooth on and off three or four times, as well as the devices, and finally something clicked and they began working again. This may having nothing whatever to do with the Safari problem, but I've learned in the last 15 years or so (I started with OS 6) to provide as much detail as you can when describing problems. I should also add I'm lazy about clearing the history or cookie caches (hope I'm saying that correctly).
Hope you all have a great weekend, and thanks for reading... If anyone has any suggestions about this issue I'd love to hear them.
Best wishes,
Tim

There is something wrong with your safari brower, I would make sure that you are running 6.0, or whatever you current version is, and then if you still have the problem I would hold down command+option+esc and force quit safari. I hope you solve your problem. I am a newbie so please say that I solved your question. Thanks a ton

Strange freezing/force quit doesn't work 100%

hey all...
for the past few weeks, i have been having this strange problem...
starting with EXCEL, but now on other programs like iphoto, itunes, and even finder...
sometimes programs just freeze...
spinning beach ball forever...
when i go to force quit, the program closes, but still stay listed in the force quit window as "program not responding"...
as well, the little light blue dot under the program icon in the dock stays "open"...
once force quit, the program can't be launched again...
and the only thing to do is restart the computer...
note: this only happens to one program at a time...ie: if it is happening in, say, excel, but other programs are open, they will run fine...
any ideas?
i have repaired permissions...
thanks,
hb

hello again...
still having the same problem...
tried creating a new user, but i confess, haven't spent as much time trying things out in that account...
i did however, reinstall os 10.5, and imported everything from a time machine backup (just so i knew i was running with a fresh OS)...
and also, ran REMBER which said the RAM was good...
even monitored the computer in CONSOLE to see if anything looked odd when an application crashed. nothing memorable yielded.
one curiosity, is that when i repair permissions, it finds hundreds to correct....
says "repair permissions complete"...
but then, i can run the process again right away, and it still finds 100's to correct.
this seems odd to me, and i wonder if a permissions problem is to blame.
but short of repairing them (or trying to) i don't know what to do...
hb

"Force Quit" command doesn't work

Apple-Option-Esc, or Command-Alt-Escape, or whatever you'd like to call it.
It stopped working.
I'm on an early 2011 MacBook Pro, 10.8.2. I can't find anything from other people having this problem. I can force quit applications that are already open with the Apple-Q command, but the Force Quit window no longer opens. It hasn't for a long time now.

It is possible that you (or some software) has changed the keyboard shortcut.
Does Force Quit still appear/work from the Apple Menu?
Does Force Quit still appear/work when you option click and hold on a dock icon?
Does the keyboard shortcut work for a different user, e.g., Guest?
Does the keyobard shortcut work when you have started up in Safe Mode?
charlie

How come a force quit application would NOT quit?

Hi,
I have now had two instances when an application which I needed to force quit, would not quit.
Both instances were with _*Elgato EyeTV version 2.5(3011)*_. OK the application would look as if it quits and disappear form the screen, but when checking in the DOCK the little triangle is there there. There was an error message "-600".
I tried to repeat force quit to no avail. Douple clicking to restart the programme fully would not work either. Restarting would however resolve the problem.
I suppose I should have tried to kill the application in TERMINAL.
Any other explanations?
Has anybody else come across resilient applications like that?
Regards

Thanks,
I agree - force quit works better when first activating the Finder. If that gives you the rolling ball, trying the Activity Monitor is a good option.
But the two events I am referring to are clearly different: ok, I used the Blue Apple Force Quit option, but the application would only sort of 'half quit'. There would be an error message: - 600. Also the Activity triangle in the dock would still be there. It would again be listed as an active application in the Blue Apple 'Force Quit' window. Force quitting in this window, would again remove it from that list, but the triangle would remain unchanged.
Also starting the application again would not work. - OK, I did not try killing it in TERMINAL then,
as I was about to switch off anyway. I used the Blue Apple option for that. No problems with it.
Restarting later was without problems either.
It just looks as if this particular application Elgato EyeTV +*would get stuck 'half way' after force quitting*+... Odd!
Have you observed anything like that with any application?
Regards

Can't Do Anything but Restart and Force Quit

Hello all, I'm here on account that my mother messed up her computer and I can't figure out what to do to help her.
She recently had fonts in conflict (extensis suitcase told her so) and so she went into the System Folder, deleted a few of the "problematic" fonts and then this happened....
Her menu bar at the top disappeared except for everything to the right past the volume icon. The rest of the desktop disappeared as well, except her wallpaper.
The only thing that can be done from this screen is open the force quit window, which contains a blinking finder icon and word.
I have tried opening the system preferences through short-cuts, but none of the short-cuts work.
When I attempt to work around that and click on the date on the menu bar (in the only part that shows), the entirety of the remaining menu bar disappears.
So... does anyone have any suggestions?! This is really important because she was working on some work-related files on there...

Hi Leah, and welcome to the forums!
I think she must've deleted some necessary System Fonts, you normally don't touch them.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1538
It appears to be time for a relatively painless Archive & Install, which gives you a new/old OS, but can preserve all your files, pics, music, settings, etc., as long as you have plenty of free disk space and no Disk corruption, and is relatively quick & painless...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120
Just be sure to select Preserve Users & Settings.

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