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Bug #138: Command-W and Command-M do not work on preferences window

Kind bug
Product WinSwitch
When Created , updated
Status closed
Reporter Greg Hurrell
Tags no tags

Description

From a user email:

"The WinSwitch Preferences window: Should it be possible to close this with Cmd-W; and minimize it with Cmd-M ? Currently, these attempts are merely met with "I have no clue what you're trying to do" beeps ;-) Trivial, but I thought I'd ask. 

- Else, should it be a "utility" window (smaller titlebar, not expected to respond to keyboard shortcuts),

instead of a full window with a regular titlebar?"

The window is set to be closeable and minizable (in Interface Builder). Perhaps it's not receiving those keyboard events from the system because it belongs to a faceless background application, "WinSwitchHelper", which has no menubar like a a normal application.

Turning it into a utility window may be the only workaround, because if the system is not forwarding the events, what can I do?

Comments

  1. Greg Hurrell

    Marking as ASSIGNED.

  2. Greg Hurrell

    Changing assignment to reflect my new email address.

    https://wincent.dev/a/news/archives/2006/05/change_of_email.php

  3. Greg Hurrell

    I'm marking all WinSwitch issues closed seeing as I personally no longer use it, and in fact haven't for around 4 years now.

    WinSwitch addressed a real problem with the initial implementation of Fast User Switching in Panther (released October 2003), namely, the excessive screen real estate that it chewed up. Apple fixed that problem in Tiger, if I recall correctly, which came out in April 2005 (or if I'm wrong about it being Tiger, then it was definitely fixed by the time Leopard came out, in October 2007).

    With this change, most of the justification for WinSwitch's existence went away, at least for me. So that's why I'm going to close all these tickets: I can't really support something that I don't use myself.

    But it's open source, so if any one wants to tackle any of these issues and submit patches, I'll be happy to accept them.

  4. Greg Hurrell

    Status changed:

    • From: new
    • To: closed
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