created: 20190211075526808 creator: user modified: 20190211080022770 modifier: user tags: title: unpause osx type: text/vnd.tiddlywiki ;https://superuser.com/questions/118190/unpause-application-in-mac-os-x To un-pause all applications, run this command in Terminal: `pkill -CONT -u $UID` or (as suggested here): `kill -CONT -1` To un-pause the specific app (such as Chrome), try: `kill -CONT $(pgrep Chrome)` Consider adding the following alias into your rc files (such as ~/.bashrc): `alias unpause="pkill -CONT -u $UID"` So next time you may just run: unpause.