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Old November 12th 17, 06:48 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Do you know what keyboard keystroke closes a terminal window in Windows 10?
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Old November 12th 17, 07:45 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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He who is Stefan Ram said on 12 Nov 2017 06:30:37 GMT:

Do you know what keyboard keystroke closes a terminal window in Windows 10?


Are you referring to the good old HyperTerminal Client
("HYPERTRM.EXE") or to a console window?

Anyway, [Alt]-[Space] should open the window menu
(untested), and then [C] should close the window (untested).


"Alt + Shift and then c" worked perfectly!

The problem I had was a bunch of command-line windows is opened up by an
application, where I wanted to close all but one of those windows.

The "Alt + Shift and then c" works fine, with the only caveat that you
can't just keep your fingers on the Alt + Shift and then press c, c, c, c,
c, c, c, etc, to close each window.

You have to lift up all three fingers, and then press Alt + Shift and then
c each time.

That's the answer to the question.
Thanks!
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Old November 12th 17, 07:46 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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He who is harry newton said on Sun, 12 Nov 2017 06:45:36 +0000 (UTC):

"Alt + Shift and then c" worked perfectly!


Ooops. I mean Alt + Space and then c.
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Old November 12th 17, 08:32 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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harry newton wrote:
He who is harry newton said on Sun, 12 Nov 2017 06:45:36 +0000 (UTC):

"Alt + Shift and then c" worked perfectly!


Ooops. I mean Alt + Space and then c.


You can also experiment with Alt-F4.

It will close an application, when the focus
is set to an application window.

If the focus is the desktop background, it
causes the OS shutdown menu to appear.

That key combo was very popular in Windows 8.0,
where Microsoft "forgot" to put an "X" up in the
upper right hand corner of Metro applications.
Metro apps could open full screen.

Alt-F4 is how you escape from that.

Paul
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Old November 12th 17, 02:55 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Stefan Ram wrote:

harry newton writes:
Do you know what keyboard keystroke closes a terminal window in Windows 10?


Are you referring to the good old HyperTerminal Client
("HYPERTRM.EXE") or to a console window?


"Terminal" means "command line". It comes from the *nix world.

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Old November 12th 17, 04:41 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Stefan Ram wrote:

harry newton writes:
Do you know what keyboard keystroke closes a terminal window in Windows 10?

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Old November 12th 17, 08:20 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On Sun, 12 Nov 2017 13:55:25 -0000 (UTC), "Auric__"
wrote:

Stefan Ram wrote:

harry newton writes:
Do you know what keyboard keystroke closes a terminal window in Windows 10?


Are you referring to the good old HyperTerminal Client
("HYPERTRM.EXE") or to a console window?


"Terminal" means "command line". It comes from the *nix world.


True, but I haven't heard it called a terminal since somewhere in the
1990's. What I hear is CLI or command line (if you've used ssh to get
there) or console.

In Windows world, it's usually called Command Prompt.

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Old November 12th 17, 10:45 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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He who is Paul said on Sun, 12 Nov 2017 02:32:06 -0500:

Ooops. I mean Alt + Space and then c.


You can also experiment with Alt-F4.


Great! Thanks! That's even more perfect!

(Alt + Space) and then c ... closes the top command window that the app
brings up, but you have to move your fingers again to do it for the next
window below it.

With (Alt + F4), you keep one finger on Alt and you hit F4, F4, F4, F4, F4,
etc., until all the windows you want to close are closed (I always want to
close all but the one working window but I never will know ahead of time
which in the series of windows the one working window will be).

So both (Alt + Space and then c) and (Alt + F4) work to close the command
windows opened by the app - but Alt + F4 is even more perfect!

Thank you for caring and for helping!
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Old November 12th 17, 10:51 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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He who is Pat said on Sun, 12 Nov 2017 10:41:40 -0500:

Do you know what keyboard keystroke closes a terminal window in Windows 10?

E X I T cr


That won't work in my case because these are windows opened up by an
application that I can't touch with the actual keyboard typing into them.

Don't ask me exactly what to call them though because they look like any
window that I would open up to the command line (CLI) but they won't take
any input from me other than F4 to close them down if they are working.

If they are not working, F4 "sometimes" works but sometimes does not work
(don't ask me why because I don't know why).

But the solution of Alt + F4 works all the time as does Alt + Shift + c,
but where the Alt + F4, F4, F4, F4, F4, etc., works better than the
Alt + Shift + c, Alt + Shift + c, Alt + Shift + c, etc.

This is great help.
Thank you all!
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Old November 12th 17, 10:52 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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He who is Char Jackson said on Sun, 12 Nov 2017 13:20:28 -0600:

"Terminal" means "command line". It comes from the *nix world.


True, but I haven't heard it called a terminal since somewhere in the
1990's. What I hear is CLI or command line (if you've used ssh to get
there) or console.

In Windows world, it's usually called Command Prompt.


These are windows opened up by an app, only one of which in the stack is
the one that is working while the others are dead.

None will take a command input from me, but all seem to be command line
windows, only under the control of the app, and not by me.

All I have control over are the window controls, but not the command line
control (so typing "exit" pr "quit" from the keyboard inside the window
wouldn't work).

Only the window controls work.
 




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