force quit shortcut keys

kmath, welcome to Apple Discussions & the Mac Community.

The key in question is probably the "Command" key, the one with the Apple symbol & the unusual rectangle symbol.

Here's a list of other keyboard commands.
Magical Macintosh Key Sequences
http://davespicks.com/writing/programming/mackeys.html

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The COMMAND or APPLE key is just to the left of the Space Bar and has  and ⌘ on it.

To force quit , hold down the OPTION and APPLE keys and click on the esc key upper left on the keyboard. Are you aware of the Force Quit command under the blue Apple?

IMAC Mac OS X (10.4.6)

That key combination used to work, now I just get a sound suggesting it is an undefined shortcut. As well, when I briefly push the power button, I used to get the option sleep/restart/shut-down the computer. The function is now lost.

It would seem to me that it is a software problem, and that I just need to remove a faulty preference file, or do a similar move. I have tried a number of things (reset PRAM, reset PMU, update firmware, MacJanitor, clean up priviliges, among others). But no luck. Any suggestions?

Again, it used to work fine when I first got my MacBook. I have had Macs since 1988, and this is the first time I see something like this.

Christian

Hi

For Sleep/Restart/Shutdown, have you tried control-eject?

To kmath, the following symbols are found in Character Palette>Symbols>Technical Symbols.

⌥ = Option/Alt
⌘ or  (shift-alt-K) = Command
⎋ = Escape

Steve