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Bug 776385 - Ctrl + w doesn’t close overview window
Ctrl + w doesn’t close overview window
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.22.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-12-22 10:31 UTC by Paul Menzel
Modified: 2017-08-24 15:59 UTC
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Description Paul Menzel 2016-12-22 10:31:00 UTC
Ctrl + w closes for example the Files/Nautilus window, but doesn’t work for the Preferences (gnome-control-center) window.

Closing the “sub-panels” as reported fixed in bug #660814 [1] works.

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660814
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2017-01-02 16:07:44 UTC
https://developer.gnome.org/hig/stable/keyboard-input.html.en
says:
Ctrl+W
Closes the current tab or window. If the window uses tabs and there is only one open, the shortcut should close the window.

Not sure if we need to make any changes here.
Comment 2 Allan Day 2017-01-03 10:50:07 UTC
Making Ctrl+W close the window seems like a nice change to me. People will often be familiar with it from browsers, and it means you don't need to learn another shortcut.
Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2017-01-03 11:11:43 UTC
commit 09263321d4e7ec56345a4aaca147299aa4c6c260
Author: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>
Date:   Tue Jan 3 12:03:19 2017 +0100

    shell: Close overview on Ctrl+W as well
    
    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776385