GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 747806
Ctrl+W shortcut stopped working
Last modified: 2015-04-16 21:53:31 UTC
I got used to the Ctrl+W shortcut for closing windows as many Gnome (Nautilus, Evince come to mind) and non-Gnome (Firefox etc.) applications support it. However, in the 3.16 release, eog doesn't support it any more. I have learned that Ctrl+Q does the job too, but Ctrl+W seem to be some kind of widely known pattern, so why not to support it too: http://superuser.com/questions/721645/whats-the-logic-behind-the-w-in-controlw-to-close-a-tab-in-ie https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#_closing_windows
Looks like it got lost during the GAction migration. I certainly don't remember a specific reason for why it should go. Note that there's a difference between Ctrl+W and Ctrl+Q. Ctrl+W will close the currently active window. Ctrl+Q however will quit eog closing ALL open windows in the process. commit 2d9488125360a2a149ddfa6c9d678487ac6f4f41 Author: Felix Riemann <> Date: Thu Apr 16 23:48:34 2015 +0200 EogApplication: Restrore Ctrl+W shortcut for closing windows Seems to have gone missing during the GAction migration. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747806 --- This problem has been fixed in our software repository. The fix will go into the next software release. Once that release is available, you may want to check for a software upgrade provided by your Linux distribution.