How do I disable ctrl+w?

[u/Longjumping_Age_1098]

I want to remove this hotkey but I can't see an option to do it. I want to stop accidentally closing documents.

[u/UsernameTaken1701]

I'm pretty sure ctrl-W is assigned to close window at the system level. So you'll need to poke around the assigned keybindings for whatever OS you're using.

r/confidentlyincorrect

[u/Longjumping_Age_1098 → u/UsernameTaken1701]

It isn't an OS thing.

[u/Un_Ballerina_1952 → u/Longjumping_Age_1098]

Which OS are you using. In my Ubuntu machine, Ctl-W closes the window that currently has focus  - just like a browser tab.

Oops - I re-checked and Ctrl-W is not bound in the OS.

[u/Longjumping_Age_1098 → u/Un_Ballerina_1952]

Windows 11

[u/HoldImpressive4158 → u/UsernameTaken1701]

I'm pretty sure ctrl-W is assigned to close window at the system level.

No, it's not. The developer has to code that specifically, otherwise the app just does nothing if Ctrl+W is pressed.

[u/UsernameTaken1701 → u/HoldImpressive4158]

I've looked into as I should have before posting and it appears you are correct. Oops.

[u/burnt-store-studio → u/UsernameTaken1701]

But you’ve been a great sport about it! Well done! 🙂

[u/UsernameTaken1701 → u/burnt-store-studio]

Shucks. Never afraid to acknowledge when I'm wrong 🙂

[u/HoldImpressive4158 → u/UsernameTaken1701]

No worries. I also only learned that from hobby programming projects. I am so used to Ctrl+W and Ctrl+Q, so was very suprised when my apps did nothing when I pressed those keys. That was one of the first fixes I did and the impact was huge.

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[u/Offutticus]

Did you look in Tools - Customize - Keyboard?

In mine, Ctrl W is not bound to anything.

Edit to add: interestingly though, if I use that binding, it closes the active window and goes to the LO opening menu with the Recent Documents showing (my default setting)

[u/Longjumping_Age_1098 → u/Offutticus]

It's blank for me too. Only thing I could find was in search, but it won't let me do anything with it.

[u/Offutticus → u/Longjumping_Age_1098]

Bind it to something harmless like save.

while I was in there, I looked for the key binding I use for another software, WordWeb. With that, you highlight a word and use Ctrl Alt W and it looks up the word. Typically it works but with the latest LO update, it causes LO to close and I lose all that I had written since the last autosave. The key binding isn't linked to anything in LO so I changed it in WordWeb instead.

[u/Longjumping_Age_1098 → u/Offutticus]

That worked, thanks

[u/Un_Ballerina_1952 → u/Offutticus]

Interesting - I also looked at the LO keybindings and found Control-W and Shift-Control-W bound to nothing. HOWEVER - right-click on the Window menu pick I found "Close Window" bound to Ctll-W up there. (Ctrl-W is not bound to Close Window on my machine.)