Unpause application in Mac OS X

Find your paused app’s process ID (using either Activity Monitor or ps -ax | grep )
issue it the CONT signal using “kill” in the terminal
CONT flag DOES NOT kill the application.


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% ps -ax | grep Firefox

  40846 ?? 3:56.85 /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox

% kill -CONT 40846

OSX – UnPause application (when marked as PAUSED in the Force Quit Applications window)