Chrome's window control fuckery
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@Lorne_Kates said:
I'm afraid to press ALT-F4. Early versions of Windows, if no window was focused, would capture ALT-F4, interpret it as "Logoff / Shutdown" and shut down without any further prompts.
It prompts now.
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Haha. That'll only partially close our program! (keeps running in the background) If you really want to close it, you have to use ctrl+Q (or file->close). Raisins.
Edit: And since the close button == alt+F4, that also only partially closes us.
Your program is a
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Most programs that have system tray icons work this way, it's standard behavior. Chrome and Gitter both work this way, for example. That's why when I want a program to actually exit and not just get off my taskbar, I use the menu.
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That's why when I want a program to actually exit and not just get off my taskbar, I use the menu
I'm more radical, I use "kill -9"
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I'm too lazy to open a shell. I'll just watch the processes close from Process Explorer and be satisfied.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
I'm afraid to press ALT-F4. Early versions of Windows, if no window was focused, would capture ALT-F4, interpret it as "Logoff / Shutdown" and shut down without any further prompts.
Timepoddin'.
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Well, to be fair, it is the day that Marty McFly arrived in the "future."
Filed under: Where are the flying cars and hoverboards?
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Timepoddin'.
More like a reflex-- like when you get beaten by a tricycle enough times as a kid, you instinctual flinch when you see a bicycle as an adult.
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@Lorne_Kates said:
More like a reflex-- like when you get beaten by a tricycle enough times as a kid, you instinctual flinch when you see a bicycle as an adult.
I suppose a person insane enough to frequently hallucinate sentient tricycles would also be afraid of bicycles years later.
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I suppose a person insane enough to frequently hallucinate sentient tricycles would also be afraid of bicycles years later.
The tricycles aren't sentient. I'm not stupid.
It's the pogo balls that are sentient, and they're swinging tricycles.
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Where are the flying cars
and hoverboards?
oh, you want something usable...
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If you actually get better performance with themes off, then you should throw out that 2004-era POS you're using.
Also, yes.
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That's why when I want a program to actually exit and not just get off my taskbar, I use the menu.
That... Doesn't work either. It does the same thing as Alt+F4
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http://hendohover.com/
oh, you want something usable...
That's one of those that requires a special surface?
It's like the solar roadways of skateboards...
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The only annoyance is that it reduces the amount of screen real estate for dragging the window.
On OS X, if you have one tab open you can drag the Chrome window by that tab, but not by the area below it, with the buttons and address bar ā whereas other windows can be dragged by clicking in any area the colour of the title bar, even if itās a status bar at the bottom of the window. (Except tabs in Safari and many other programs, because that usually drags the tab itself to a new position.) With two or more tabs open in Chrome, you drag the tab instead@Lorne_Kates said:
Early versions of Windows, if no window was focused, would capture ALT-F4, interpret it as "Logoff / Shutdown" and shut down without any further prompts.
You must be thinking of really old Windows versions. Even in 2.1, first up thereās always a window or icon with the focus, even if youāve minimised everything, and this happens if you press AltF4 when the MS-DOS Executive has the focus:<img src="/uploads/default/original/3X/0/f/0ff8478965ba45ccd86272d010183743c4da0b19.png" width="640" height="480ā>
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Replying to myself here because that seems to be the only way to get two screenshots in ā if I try to put both into the post above, everything after the first simply disappears.
Since you have me wondering now, I also decided to try 1.02. AltF4 doesnāt appear to work there at all (probably because there arenāt any keyboard shortcuts I could find), and choosing the menu Special ā End Session causes this:
<img src="/uploads/default/original/3X/a/6/a6d00e3846d82bbd4bf3f5022d41a4755bf61492.png" width="640" height="350ā>
So Iām calling bullshit on āinterpret [Alt+F4] as "Logoff / Shutdown" and shut down without any further promptsā
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Maybe it's just me, but I never use the close button on windows. I always accidentally do something I don't want. These days I go File -> Exit/Close
I use it a lot, but it doesn't work right on chrome. Because I have hangouts installed (so that I can use Voice, which actually knows how to put sound to a headset, and Voice doesn't work without hangouts installed, but actually that only really works in FF, so I have to also have shit opened up in FF). Because if you click the close button, chrome doesn't close down hangouts, or something, the bottom line being that chrome doesn't really stop all of its processes. So you have to use the menu to properly shut it down.
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That's standard behavior for tray icon apps. Gitter works this way too. So does Process Explorer. Basically the tray icon is the program and the windows are just things you can open and close at a whim.
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That's standard behavior for tray icon apps.
I guess I never noticed that it was one of those. But it worked before I installed the awful hangouts addon. I never noticed it there until you said that. Clicking on it, it has a check box to allow it to run in the background. I've unchecked that and the icon went away.
EDIT: And after that, it behaves like it did before. Huzzah!
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The keyword here is : Options
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2009/02/13/9416485.aspx
With two or more tabs open in Chrome, you drag the tab instead
How do you split a tab into another window then?
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http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2009/02/13/9416485.aspx
does that have to do with interface choices ?
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The first thing I hit is the bookmark bar.
That's arguably in the wrong place since it's not a part of the tab context.
But it can modify the tab context, so it seems to me that it is in the correct place.
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True, it's not doing a universal action, it's only acting on that tab.
If they always opened in new tabs, that'd be different.
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By dragging it up or down (dragging it sideways changes the order of the tabs within the window). Not using Chrome much except to test this kind of thing, Iām guessing that the logic of allowing a window with a single tab to be dragged by the tab is that this is analogous to dragging a tab off the window it was on to create a new window.