1 Topic by olivers-h (edited by olivers-h 2013-06-26 12:47:56)

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Topic: Questions About ALT+F5 From A Newb

Newb here. First off, thanks to everyone in the community for contributing to this tool and to anyone reading this for your time.

When I hit ALT+F5 in the GParted live environment, the focused window disappears.

DistroWatch says GParted Live uses the FluxBox window manager, and the FluxBox manual page says that ALT+F5 kills the current window. It says it is "like" Xkill(1)

The wiki page on Xkill (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xkill) says that this destroys the window, but doesn't necessarily kill the client process, however most clients will abort when their window is unexpectedly closed by Xkill.

My questions are:

1. Does ALT+F5 in GParted Live do xKill like the FluxBox man page suggests?

2. When ALT+F5 is used with GParted in focus, does it kill the process as well as the window?

3. If the answer to 2 is no, is there a way to undo ALT+F5 and get the window back?

4. Should I submit a bug about the lack of confirmation/choice of shortcut/lack of explanation with this shortcut? ALT+F5 is easily accidentally pressed when attempting adjacent, safe shortcuts like ALT+F4 and FN+F5 (brightness control on many laptops). Depending on your answers to 1,2, and 3, this means that a newb can accidentally disappear their window without any explanation about what they've just done or how to undo it, or kill GParted in the middle of an operation, resulting in wasted time and partition corruption, and with no confirmation beforehand or explanation afterward.

2 Reply by gedakc

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Re: Questions About ALT+F5 From A Newb

To see if ALT+F5 kills all of the gparted processes, you could open a terminal window and check if any processes are running with the following command:

ps -ef | grep gparted | grep -v grep