Keyboard Shortcut for Close Window doesn't work

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Keyboard Shortcut for Close Window doesn't work

Very strange, but the (cmd+W) function doesn't work on my machine all of a sudden. I've switched out two keyboards incase it was the W key, but all other short cuts work. I've restored defaults in the keyboard system preferences, and no dice...Any suggestions?

G5 Dual 2.3, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Dec 7, 2006 3:30 PM

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Answer 1

Dec 7, 2006 3:36 PM in response to Christopher Thasiah

This may be a dumb question, but are you positive that the window you're trying to close is active (has focus)?

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Answer 2

Dec 7, 2006 5:18 PM in response to Christopher Thasiah

Christopher Thasiah-

Very strange indeed.

Is this happening in more than one program?

Luck-

-DaddyPaycheck

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Answer 3

Dec 8, 2006 7:01 AM in response to Steve Boultbee

Yeah it has the focus. 🙂

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Answer 4

Dec 8, 2006 7:02 AM in response to DaddyPaycheck

It is happening in more than one application and the finder, optioncommandW is working.... to close all windows of an application, just not a single window and say...tabs in a browser.

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Answer 5

Dec 8, 2006 8:23 AM in response to Christopher Thasiah

Christopher Thasiah-

Time to dig deeper. Have you tried this with everything disconnected from the USB bus? Plug only the keyboard and mouse into there own ports on the Mac and see what happens.

Luck-

-DaddyPaycheck

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Answer 6

Dec 11, 2006 9:21 AM in response to DaddyPaycheck

Well, tried the last suggestion and it didn't work, but logged in as another user and it works fine...so it's narrowed down to the something in my user and in the system, not related to a specific keyboard. I deleted the universal preference and finder preference and no dice...still not working... Thanks for your help.

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Answer 7

Dec 11, 2006 10:05 AM in response to Christopher Thasiah

Christopher Thasiah-

Try launching from your system install disk and running disk utility. Repair permissions on the startup disk. See what that does for you.

Luck-

-DaddyPaycheck

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Answer 8

Dec 13, 2006 10:14 PM in response to DaddyPaycheck

Thank you for your help. Actually figured it out. Logged in as another user and it worked again, so I narrowed it down to a thrd party application: You Control. Now it's fixed. WOW it was incredibly frustrating. THank you for your help.

Chris

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