Exiting Activities

To stop an Activity, use the touchpad or a mouse to move the cursor to the stop button on the right corner and click. Try to have no more than three Activities open at once.

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To stop an Activity using the keyboard, press and hold the ctrl key, and then press the q key. There are some exceptions below.

Scratch

There are some “Activities”, such as Scratch, that are stopped from the “File” menu by selecting “Quit” or “Exit”. These activities may require a separate step to save your work by clicking on the “Save” or “Save As” command or may also be done by clicking the folder icon with a downpointing arrow.

In Scratch, for example, you must go to “File” then “Save As” then give your project a name next to “New Filename” then click “OK”.

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Etoys

The Etoys Activity is stopped by clicking a button that has an ✕ within a white disc, rather than the stop sign.

Terminal

The Terminal Activity must be quit using Ctrl/D, Ctrl/Shift/Q, or the stop button. This is because Ctrl/Q has a special meaning in a Terminal.