Workbench Menu - Quit...

Shuts down Workbench, but only if all programs (like Commodities) have been closed down. Will display a message like 'Cannot quit yet, there are x WB launched program(s)' if there are some still running. Use Exchange to close down commodities.

You must start a Shell before quitting Workbench if you want to continue work afterwards. But if you start a Shell in the normal way, this in itself will prevent you from quitting Workbench, as that Shell is now one of the 'WB launched programs'. The way around this is to add the NOAPPWINDOW switch to the WINDOW tooltype in a Shell icon (e.g. make a copy of the SYS:System/Shell icon and change the WINDOW tooltype to 'WINDOW=CON:100/200/800/500/AmigaShell/CLOSE/NOAPPWINDOW' or similar). Then the Shell window will no longer accept dragging of icons onto it, but will in return allow the Workbench to close while it is open.

Note that unlike some other operating systems, it is not a requirement for turning off your Amiga that you have first closed or quit the Workbench. It is quite safe to simply turn off the machine, as long as no writing to disk is in progress. But of course you should first make sure you have saved any data or projects you were working on. Also note that sometimes a filesystem will wait a few seconds after the last write and then make a final write to disk of some caches, so as a rule of thumb you should always wait three seconds after you save something before rebooting or turning off the machine.

Keyboard Shortcut: Amiga + Q