Suggested feature: Dismiss Everything GUI with ESC

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Raindrops
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Suggested feature: Dismiss Everything GUI with ESC

Post by Raindrops »

Everything is running in the background, and is available at all times with a simple hotkey.
So logically speaking, it should be as easy to dismiss (close) the GUI with a ESC.

I wanted to set ESC as the hotkey for "toggle window", but this is not possible: as soon as I press ESC, the Options window itself disappears.

BTW is the "Toggle window" functionality different from closing its window?
  • When I close the Everything window by clicking on the X button at top-right corner of the window, I do not see Everything icon in my System Tray. My taskbar also does not show Everything running.
  • When I toggle Everything window, I see the exact same results in System Tray and Task bar.
void
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Re: Suggested feature: Dismiss Everything GUI with ESC

Post by void »

Please try adding ESC keyboard shortcut to close the search window:
  • In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
  • Click the Keyboard tab on the left.
  • To the right of show commands containing, search for:
    close
  • Select File | Close.
  • Click Add....
  • Press ESC and click OK.
  • Click OK.

BTW is the "Toggle window" functionality different from closing its window?
No.
Toggling a search window means
If there's an active search window, close it.
Otherwise, if there's an existing search window opened, show it.
Otherwise, open a new window.

close_on_toggle can override this setting.

Was this set to 0? the default should be 1

Have you disabled Tools -> Options -> UI -> Run in background?
Raindrops
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Re: Suggested feature: Dismiss Everything GUI with ESC

Post by Raindrops »

I had already thought of checking out the Tools > Options > keyboard settings.
In fact, I looked for Window | Close, but didn't find it there.

I did not look under the File options, because they are supposed to work on the search results or selected file(s).
Therefore, the File | Close is not appropriate IMHO: It should be Window | Close.

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The Tools -> Options -> UI -> Run in background option is already activated, and I haven't changed it.
Yet I cannot see it minimized to System Tray or Task bar.
That is the doubt I have.

The toggle windows command seems perfect for my purposes.
Thanks!
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