the killall command works. -9 will simply force it to quit. I prefer the use of killall -HUP VoiceOver as it forces a reset of voiceover without going through all the issues of restarting it via keystrokes. btw, you must capitalize the V and the O otherwise it will not find the process name.
-Eric On Nov 24, 2010, at 1:53 AM, Geoff Waaler wrote: > Greetings, > I meant to reply to one of Nic's recent posts, but deleted it. He suggested > that if VO goes silent one could enter terminal into spotlight and then enter > -- I forget the exact command but believe it was killallall -9 voiceover. > > I tried this with and without the extra "all" and also tried inserting a > space between the two alls, but only receive a message that no matching > processes were found. > > I'd like to get this right in case I do experience a vo crash. May not have > recalled the parm Nic mentioned, but I did use the one he specified (which > may not have been -9). > > TIA for any clarification, and best regards. > Geoff > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
