Steve Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > Steve Harris wrote: > > > >> > >> I have LyX 1.4.2 installed and alt-f4 kills lyx but not cmd.exe > >> My keyboard requires using an F-lock key to enable standard features. > >> > > > > Hmm. I was going to ask John and Ed whether alt-F4 kills programs other > > than LyX that are being run in shells (rather than as native Windows > > apps) (if I'm expressing that distinction correctly). My suspicion was > > that maybe failure to kill cmd.exe implied inability to kill anything > > running in a shell. However, if alt-F4 kills LyX and not cmd.exe for
So, cmd.exe and command.exe when started from Start->Run both do not respond to Alt-F4 for me either. Other things started from cmd.exe command prompt do listen to Alt F4 c:\windows\system32\winmine.exe and dvdplay.exe both respond to Alt-F4. I run most of my stuff from a cygwin shell, but everything closes on Alt-F4 except cmd.exe and lyx.exe. Even when I start lyx from the desktop shortcut, it does not respond to Alt-F4. Even when I double click on the cmd.exe in windows/system32 it does not respond to F4. I have tried cmd.exe on about 6 xp machines, Alt-F4 does nothing on any of them for cmd.exe. The exact lyx installer is the most recent, the 2.0 installer for 1.41 lyxwininstall/LyxWin141Complete-2.01.exe Even just running lyx.exe (not lyx.bat) appears to open a shell for a second before the application launches... Very odd, I wonder what is up. Maybe the shell is the root of all problems with Alt-F4. > > That is actually quite a good theory...because there are different > versions of installers and the original port might not have had a > "hook"(?) built into it. But it wouldn't explain a difference in > behavior at an OS level, methinks. I just tried Alt-F4 on my Win98 > machine Dos-prompt and that doesn't affect it. I thought perhaps > your system might have had an earlier compatibility mode enabled, > which would produce a different result. I'll look into it. > This stuff is crazy. I tried posting on some MS "help" pages, and the "MS experts" suggested I use Alt-Space then C, which breaks the standard that Alt-F4 closes everything, like hitting the big red X.
