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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: LONG: File-menu
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       1999-11-20 20:45:51
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On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 06:13:12PM +0100, Wilke Havinga wrote:
> > Get over it. You also had to click so many times to get them on the
> > screen in the first place. 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Waldo
> 
> Okay, maybe this is an interesting idea: in WindowMaker when you click the
> 'close'-button (which is much like the close-button on the upper-right
> corner of every KDE-window), only that window is closed.
> However, when you hold the Ctrl-key while clicking it, the program (unix 
> process) is 'kill -9'-ed. Very handy for programs that don't react on the
> normal 'Close' command (i.e. Netscape often needs this on my computer ;).

FYI, under KDE, you can use Ctrl+Alt+Esc for that.

> This way you can create some extra keys for the 'poweruser', while the
> normal user might never use this feature.
> 
> You might not want to 'kill -9', but at least you can close all windows of
> an application (read: unix process) when Ctrl is hold.
> 
> However, I can see problems with programs that open many windows with
> different filetypes (someone mentioned the picture viewer).
> 
> Let me know what you think about this.
> 
> 
> Bye,
> 
> Wilke Havinga
> 

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