cmd + w should close the window (but not quit the app) but at the moment it seems not to be doing anything
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Cmd + w not working on macOS app 95.7 - Big Sur 11.2.1
Best answer by Gleb
Cmd + W doesn’t close the window, it closes the tab, and you can’t close the main tab. To close the window, press Shift + Cmd + W.
Hmm I’m unable to reproduce this. Do you maybe have another app running that may be taking over that shortcut? If not I would try reinstalling the desktop app to see if it persists.
Thanks 🙂
Ah that’s weird that you’re not getting it too! Happening with me on two computers. Just noticed that cmd + w works at closing the tabs of open files but doesn’t close the main opening menu of “recently viewed” or other options in the side bar. I’ll try a reinstall.
Cmd + W doesn’t close the window, it closes the tab, and you can’t close the main tab. To close the window, press Shift + Cmd + W.
That explains it, thanks Gleb!
It’s a shame that it’s intentional because that seems very unintuitive to me. I can’t think of any other application that doesn’t close the window with cmd + w.
Usually applications with tabs close the tabs sequentially with cmd + w until there’s only one left, then one more cmd + w closes the window. E.g Finder, Safari, Chrome, Firefox, VSCode, Atom, Terminal, Hyper
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