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From: XeCycle <XeCycle@Gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: capture gtk kill (gnome alt-f4) (delete-event?)
Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 13:26:49 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ehq7pl5y.fsf@xc.laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87sjen34fr.fsf@okhotsk19.lowtem.hokudai.ac.jp

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Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala <yagnesh@live.com> writes:

> Hello.,
>
> is there a way I can capture alt-f4 (in gnome) and act within Emacs.?
>
> This is because, recent times, I am killing Emacs by mistake with
> alt-f4.
>
> I am longing for a function which captures alt-f4 event and ask me for
> confirmation in all circumstances.

Don't think there will be one, since it may or may not work.

The key is received by X server, then goes to whichever program
that binds this key; if the key is first bound by the window
manager, it may or may not allow rebinds of it.

You'd better play with it in your window manager.

-- 
Carl Lei (XeCycle)
Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-26  5:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-26  5:19 capture gtk kill (gnome alt-f4) (delete-event?) Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala
2012-05-26  5:26 ` XeCycle [this message]
2012-05-26  6:28   ` Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala
2012-05-26  7:36     ` XeCycle

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