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linuxham

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Registered: 2021-06-23

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Keybinding for Close window of focus

I want to implement Shift Super C as a kill the window of focus in Xubuntu. What is the shortcut command to do this?

Thanks!!
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ToZ

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Re: Keybinding for Close window of focus

Hello and welcome.

You could just use Alt+F4 to close any active window. If you want to use another keyboard shortcut, the following command will do the same (requires xdotool):

xdotool getactivewindow windowclose

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linuxham

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Re: Keybinding for Close window of focus

Thanks very much for the response, where is ALT F4 documented? It's not listed in the Keyboard settings...

ToZ

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Re: Keybinding for Close window of focus

Thanks very much for the response, where is ALT F4 documented? It's not listed in the Keyboard settings...

The online documentation makes reference to it. Its built-in and pretty much a standard among desktop environments (? not 100% sure about all of them).

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deanr

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Re: Keybinding for Close window of focus

I've set the Super + Shift + C to close my windows.

Go to Window Manager > Keyboard, find Close Window and click on it, Click edit, type in custom keybinding i.e. Super + Shift + C.

Note: You'll need to delete or reallocate the Super Key = show Whisker Menu key (I don't use any of the xfce menus so this is not a problem for me - I use dmenu and/or rofi).

Last edited by deanr (2021-06-26 12:02:35)