When you click on the "Application Crashes" tab, a panel appears with controls for customizing Kick-off!'s application crash detection. This panel is divided into three sections. The first lets you enable application crash detection, the second lets you configure crash recovery, and the third shows you the current system status.
The first section contains a check box, allowing you to enable application crash detection.
Monitor for crashes in supported applications
If this box is checked, Kick-off! will monitor applications which were invoked with the Launcher utility, as well as applications which contain support for Kick-off!'s Rebound! Timer technology.
Note: In order for Kick-off! to monitor an application's timer, the application must have Rebound! support built in. We offer an SDK that can be compiled into an application to provide this support. See "Using Rebound! Timers" for more information.
The second section of the "Application Crashes" panel contains a pair of radio buttons that lets you choose how Kick-off! will attempt to recover from crashes.
Restart system immediately
If this button is selected, Kick-off! will restart the computer when an application crashes.
Kick-off! will first attempt to initiate a system restart. If the system restart fails, the Kick-off! hardware will then perform a hard restart, after a delay specified by the "Restart if system doesn't respond" slider in the "System Crashes" panel.
Attempt to relaunch application
If this button is selected, Kick-off! will first attempt to relaunch the application which crashed, before it resorts to restarting the system.
If the application keeps crashing after being relaunched, it probably means that something else is wrong with the system. In this situation, Kick-off! can "fall back" and restart the entire system. You can configure when Kick-off! will resort to restarting the system by typing values into the two fields below this radio button.
The first value is the number of crashes that will cause Kick-off! to restart the system. (A value of 1 here is equivalent to selecting the "Restart system immediately" button.)
The second value (and associated pop-up menu) is the interval in which these repeated crashes must occur. If an application crashes once every few days, Kick-off! will simply relaunch it, but if it crashes repeatedly over a short time, Kick-off! will restart the system.
The third section of the "Application Crashes" panel contains a list of all applications being currently monitored, and their status.
If an application has built-in Rebound! Timer support, the second column shows the current value of the timer. This timer counts down each second until the next time it is updated by the application.
The third column shows the number of times each application has been relaunched recently (i.e. within the relaunching interval described above). This alerts you to applications which may be crashing frequently.