Suppose you have just start up your computer: no application is running yet. Click on Quit's display to show the Quit menu.
 
The Quit menu doesn't list any running application
and the "Quit Others" and "Quit All" commands are
disabled.
Notice that the Finder is not included in the running
applications' list (see Advanced Quit Options to quit
the Finder).
Run now the three applications myApplication1, myApplication2, myApplication3 and display the Quit menu:
 
Three new commands have been added to the Quit
menu, one for each running application. The
command corresponding to myApplication3 is
checked to remind you it is the active application.
Select one of these commands to quit the
corresponding application. If you want to quit all
background applications, choose the "Quit Others"
command. If you want to quit all running applications
instead, just choose the "Quit All" command.
Important: If Quit CSM is running under Apple Control Strip or Men & Mice Desktop Strip, applications developed before the introduction of System 7.0 are not included in the Quit menu, because they do not support Apple Events and cannot be quitted from Quit CSM. For the same reason Quit CSM is not able to quit other applications, when an application preceding System 7.0 is active: all Quit commands are disabled in this case.
Quit CSM is not suffering from this limitation, if it is running under Extensions Strip by Skidmore Software. Minimum Extensions Strip version compatible with Quit CSM is v1.5.2.
Memory Information
 
 
In certain cases (you are running out of
memory) the decision about what application to
quit depends on the running applications'
memory sizes. Check the "Show Application Size"
option, so that the Quit menu displays the
memory size associated to each running
application.
Quit CSM can give you also another memory information: check the "Show Largest Unused Block" in the Quit menu to display the current largest unused memory block (expressed in MB) and the percentage of unused RAM (shown graphically through the "memory bar") in Quit's display.
 
Configuring Quit CSM: Excluding Applications
 
The "Quit Others" and "Quit All" commands generally help you in quickly quitting more applications at the same time, but there can be occasions in which you would prefer them to be ... less efficient!
You might have an application in your Startup Items Folder, which you would like to keep always running. Or perhaps you might currently use an application needing a password to be quitted.
Quit CSM gives you the possibility of excluding these applications. Excluded applications are not listed in the Quit menu (see also Advanced Quit Options) and the "Quit Others" and "Quit All" commands don't quit them any more.
 
Let's consider for instance the application
NeverQuitMe!, which you would like to keep always
running. How can you tell Quit CSM that you can't
live a second without it? It's easy, activate
NeverQuitMe! and select the "Exclude
NeverQuitMe!" command in the Quit menu.
 
The command "Quit NeverQuitMe!" disappears from
the Quit menu and the "Quit Others" and "Quit All"
commands can be safely performed while keeping
NeverQuitMe! running.
What about if you change your mind and would like
to readmit the application NeverQuitMe! in the
Quit menu? Just activate it and choose the
"Include NeverQuitMe!" command.
Advanced Quit Options
 
 
Let's suppose that you exceptionally want to quit
NeverQuitMe!. How can you do it, since you told Quit
CSM to do as if NeverQuitMe! were not existing?
Simply shift-click Quit's display: the advanced
Quit menu, which lists all running processes, is
displayed.
Choose the "Quit NeverQuitMe!" command.
Important: If Quit CSM is running under Control Strip or Desktop Strip, applications developed before the introduction of System 7.0 are not included in the advanced Quit Menu, because they do not support Apple Events and cannot be quitted from Quit CSM. For the same reason Quit CSM is not able to quit other applications, when an application preceding System 7.0 is active: all Quit commands are disabled in this case.
Quit CSM is not suffering from this limitation if it is running under Extensions Strip.
The advanced Quit menu (shift-click on Quit's display) also offers you another possibility: the "Quit Finder" and "Restart Finder" commands enable you to quit and then launch the Finder.
Important: If you are a novice, don't quit the Finder. Remember in any case that the Finder's absence reduces the System's functionality (no file sharing, no Apple Menu, limitations on background printing, ... ).
 
The advanced Quit menu finally lets you quit
background-only or faceless background applications
(BOAs), too.
To quit the background-only application myBOA,
for instance, choose the "Quit myBOA" command,
listed in the BOAs section of the advanced Quit
menu.
Important: Quit background-only applications only if you exactly know what you are doing. The indiscriminate quitting of BOAs can lead to system errors.
Display Options
 
Quit's display can be customized. The "memory bar" color can be changed: 12 color layouts are at your disposal. To rotate through the different color options, display the "memory bar" (i.e. check the "Show Largest Unused Block" option) and click on the Quit's display while pressing the command key. Repeat this operation until the desired color is shown.
 
If the "Show Largest Unused Block" is checked, the icon in Quit's display can be shown or hidden by toggling the "Show Icon" option. The display width can be thus reduced.
