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Bug 791911 - Shortcut to close window w/o killing daemon
Shortcut to close window w/o killing daemon
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: geary
Classification: Other
Component: ux
0.12.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Geary Maintainers
Geary Maintainers
Depends on: 792406
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-12-24 08:02 UTC by J.R. Maingat
Modified: 2019-10-24 04:47 UTC
See Also:
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Description J.R. Maingat 2017-12-24 08:02:35 UTC 
I primarily use my keyboard to navigate my system and AFAIK the only shortcut to close Geary (w/o killing the background process) is Alt-F4.

I'd rather use Ctrl-w/Escape as it's much easier to type.
Comment 1 Michael Gratton 2018-01-04 03:14:46 UTC 
Hi there, thanks for the bug report.

Geary sometimes takes a while to exit when Geary > Quit is activated or the main window is closed — sometimes up to 20 seconds, and if you have the "Always watch for new mail" preference selected, it will never exit and always keep running in the background.

If clicking the [X] button, choosing Quit, pressing Alt-F4 or Ctrl-Q does not make the geary process exit within a few seconds, you may be hitting Bug 745561. Is that the case?
Comment 2 J.R. Maingat 2018-01-06 06:06:18 UTC 
Hi, I have the "Always watch for new mail" preference selected. Ctrl-Q closes Geary but kills the background process as well.

All I would like is to use Ctrl-w/Escape as an shortcut to close Geary and keep it running in the background.
Comment 3 Michael Gratton 2018-01-06 07:31:13 UTC 
Oh, that's weird - it should remain in the background in either case. You're running 0.12, right? Did you install from source, distro package or flatpak?
Comment 4 J.R. Maingat 2018-01-06 22:17:03 UTC 
I'm on Xubuntu 17.10 running 0.12.0-0ubuntu1 from ubuntu-artful-universe.
Comment 5 Michael Gratton 2018-01-15 22:56:58 UTC 
Okay, well I'm going to mark this as depending on Bug 792406 then because that's where we're probably going to be thinking about this.
Comment 6 Michael Gratton 2019-10-24 04:47:04 UTC 
This has been fixed in 3.34. There is now a Ctrl+W shortcut that, when the "Watch for new mail when closed" pref is enabled, will keep Geary running in the background.

See also further planned improvements in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/issues/604