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Is there a way to get Task Manager to kill a fullscreen app without navigating a bunch of menus behind the frozen full screen?
Sometimes I could overcome that problem by switching to another virtual desktop/workspace (if necessary creating one temporarily) and using the task manager there.
> I initially drew the meters as 7-segment LEDs but that wasn't localizable to all cultures (How do you do a right-to-left reading 7-segment LED for Saudi Arabia?) so they only lasted for one version or so. I don't get it. Why isn't that localizable? You can write the numbers in either direction with it, can't you? What am I missing?
I don't think right-to-left is the issue, since numbers in Arabic are still written left-to-right. However, they use different digits, which don't fit on a 7-segment display, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Arabic_numerals . And there's also Thai numerals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_numerals .
https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/microsoft_to_roll_out_...
It always frustrated me that there were Inuktitut and Welsh versions of Microsoft products, but no real (British) English versions of them. Network Neighborhood indeed!
> Task Manager will load in reduced mode if resources are short, like only loading the Processes page if that's what's needed to get going. It's one of the very few apps that won't just "fail and bail" when things go wrong. This has saved me a few times, but every time I've seen it I always figured task manager was just failing to completely load. Glad to know that this was a deliberate state.
Is there a name for a process like this? Very interesting approach I want to take with future software.