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Quickly relaunch an app with Quicksilver

That's it, Quicksilver is officially The Handiest Utility Ever. This great tip from Lifehacker explains how you can use Quicksilver to quickly relaunch an application that has - *ahem*- unexpectedly frozen. Simply call up Quicksilver, find the target application, tab over to the action pane, type "relaunch," hit return and blammo! The errant app gets a kick in the seat. Thanks, Quicksilver!

That's it, Quicksilver is officially The Handiest Utility Ever. This great tip from Lifehacker explains how you can use Quicksilver to...
 

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JD

You probably don't need to ever type out "relaunch". On my system, "fi(tab)rel(enter)" does the trick. The key combination will depend on how the user trained their Quicksilver.

3) Serge; yeah, it's unfortunate, but I do just that. I remember a time when Quicksilver didn't spontaneously die on occasion, now I have to relaunch it maybe every couple weeks. I wish I knew what changed.

April 21 2007 at 1:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Matthew Echert

If you're using LiteSwitch X it's faster (I think) to Cmd-Tab over to the app to be relaunched and hit F-F for force quit or F-R for force relaunch...

April 19 2007 at 8:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Serge

Eric,
Simply put Quicksilver icon in the Dock.

April 19 2007 at 7:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
WinnetouKoslowski

You may aswell press Command ESC in Finder. Or Contol Command Q in Quicksilver. And then probably sort out the Trash from your catalogs.

April 19 2007 at 1:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Eric

This is great. Now all I need is a very small widget that relaunches Quicksilver for the *ahem* times it decides to freeze. Otherwise I have to go into my applications folder, Yuck!

April 19 2007 at 1:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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