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Re: Any Way to Force an Idle Handler System Call? (Redux)
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Re: Any Way to Force an Idle Handler System Call? (Redux)


  • Subject: Re: Any Way to Force an Idle Handler System Call? (Redux)
  • From: "S. J. Cunningham" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 08:53:04 -0400

On Jun 8, 2014, at 8:36 AM, Shane Stanley wrote:

> On 8 Jun 2014, at 10:30 pm, S. J. Cunningham <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>>> What process name do you see in Activity Monitor?
>>
>> "Idle App" of course :)
>
> OK, we covered this in a thread here last week or so. One option was:
>
> tell application "System Events" to set pid to unix id of process "Idle App"
> do shell script "kill " & pid
>
> But killall should work with the app name.

I agree... but it doesn't :)  Also quitting the process from the Activity Monitor invokes the quit handler but I can't find a -SIGNAL for the kill or killall command which does.  Any ideas?


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