Terminal: Make Alt+F4 work and warn the user about terminating more than one tab

Created on 25 Jun 2019 · 4Comments · Source: microsoft/terminal

Environment

Windows build number: Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18362.175]
Windows Terminal version (if applicable): 0.2.1715.0

Steps to reproduce

Start The terminal app, try to close it using Alt + F4

Expected behavior

The app should close

Actual behavior

The app doesn't close, which is inconsistent with 99% of windows apps

Area-User Interface Issue-Task Product-Terminal Resolution-Fix-Available

Source

arnederuwe

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Most helpful comment

This is now the tracking issue for getting alt+f4 working and adding a dialog to stop users from harming their running session state.

DHowett-MSFT on 28 Jun 2019

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All 4 comments

On Second Thought.
PowerShell and WSL individually don't close on alt+f4 as they don't have it set for the task. Windows Terminal shows it has alt+f4 set to close but it doesn't work. perhaps they are trying to make it consistent with the rest two.

Shorotshishir on 25 Jun 2019

This is now the tracking issue for getting alt+f4 working and adding a dialog to stop users from harming their running session state.

DHowett-MSFT on 28 Jun 2019

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It would also be nice if there was an option to prompt the user about closing a tab that has a running program. For example, running a development server of some kind in a tab in interactive mode (vs. daemon mode) is often a development workflow for all sorts of apps (Angular CLI, webpack-based apps, Node apps etc.) these days.