Comments on: Reader Tip: Easily Relaunch Quicksilver

By: rob zand » Blog Archive » links for 2008-03-31

rob zand » Blog Archive » links for 2008-03-31 — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:49:29 +0000

[...] Reader Tip: Easily Relaunch Quicksilver | The Apple Blog (tags: quicksilver howto automator) [...]

By: How To: Rapidly Restart Mac Firefox | Firefox.hk

How To: Rapidly Restart Mac Firefox | Firefox.hk — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:16:10 +0000

[...] was reading a post on The Apple Blog about a similar fix for getting Quicksilver to act properly when I immediately thought how this [...]

By: iTunes & Last.fm | Adam Pieniazek

iTunes & Last.fm | Adam Pieniazek — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 23:28:23 +0000

[...] fix is really simple, and like Paul’s plugin for Firefox and Jono’s plugin for Quicksilver, only requires two lines of [...]

By: links for 2007-06-29 « Tyrants & Tax Collectors

links for 2007-06-29 « Tyrants & Tax Collectors — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:25:27 +0000

[...] Reader Tip: Easily Relaunch Quicksilver – The Apple Blog do shell script “killall Quicksilver; exit 0″ do shell script “open /Applications/Quicksilver.app” (tags: quicksilver automator) [...]

By: Jono

Jono — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:55:59 +0000

Yea, I should point out that this is meant for force quitting & restarting Quicksilver when it misbehaves. Not just normal quitting or starting of Quicksilver.

Also I didn’t come up with the AppleScript, someone much cleverer than me at the Quicksilver forums did. I just had the idea of using Automator to er… automate it.

By: alex

alex — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:31:50 +0000

this goes in the bash.login file in ~/

alias rquicksilver=”killall Quicksilver; open /Applications/Utilities/Quicksilver.app”

By: Darth Zippy

Darth Zippy — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:02:13 +0000

Or, you could cut out the middle-man and use the ‘Do Shell Command’ Automator action instead of the Appliscript action.

Either way, nice tip :)

By: Jeremy Brooks

Jeremy Brooks — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:04:57 +0000

If Quicksilver is not running, the killall will return non-zero and the script will fail. I did this to ensure a zero exit value:

do shell script “killall Quicksilver; exit 0″
do shell script “open /Applications/Quicksilver.app”

By: Elan

Elan — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:58:39 +0000

I kill my quicksilver every night in the middle of the night with a simple script run by cron:

#!/bin/sh killall Quicksilver; sleep 1; open /Programs/Quicksilver.app

I haven’t had any problems since.

By: hmelman

hmelman — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:47:53 +0000

If QS isn’t hung (requiring a force quit) but is merely acting up you can easily restart it by activating it (control-space or whatever you’ve set it to) and typing control-command-Q.