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Status: Untriaged
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OS: Linux
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Type: Feature



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introduce a setting (or flag) option to toggle between alt-f-x and ctrl-shift-q

Reported by andrea.f...@gmail.com, Nov 9

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.67 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Press Ctrl+Shift+Q
2. An overlay is shown, informing about new keyboard shortcut

What is the expected behavior?
Close all windows

What went wrong?
In Ubuntu the Alt key is summoning the HUD making the shortcut not usable.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 70.0.3538.67  Channel: stable
OS Version: ubuntu
Flash Version: 

Looking at the mixed reception of this solution (I mean the introduction of alt+f+x, as you can read in comments of  Issue 243164 ), please introduce an option to use the previous shortcut.
Even better make the combination customizable.
 

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Also, kiosk mode does not support the alternative shown in the toaster.
Labels: Needs-Triage-M70
Cc: phanindra.mandapaka@chromium.org
Labels: -Type-Bug Target-72 M-72 FoundIn-71 FoundIn-70 FoundIn-72 Type-Feature
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
Thanks for the issue...

As per the above description, this issue seems to be a feature request "option to toggle between alt-f-x and ctrl-shift-q".
Marking this as Untriaged for further updates from Dev.

Thanks..
Labels: Triaged-ET
Adding Triaged-ET label..
Cc: thomasanderson@chromium.org
Literally, it doesn't matter which shortcut to use for quitting browser, but 'alt-f-x' doesn't work on all the sites that I may have opened. So I have to do much more actions just to close the Chrome. Choosing this shortcut brought in a regression - something that worked doesn't work anymore.
I simply can't use Alt-F because I use Alt as a command key in AwesomeWM so Alt-F makes a window go fullscreen. It can't be captured by Chrome. I really need that Ctrl-Shift-Q shortcut back, never pressed it accidentally. Why even change something so fundamental without an option to go back?
Google's OWN Docs suite (including Sheets/Slides/etc) just intercepted Alt+F when I wanted to quit Chrome. So annoying!!
I think at this point it's beyond a "feature request".

Even with the option to use Ctrl+w multiple times, this complicates expectations for users with multiple windows active on different virtual desktops.

Please just bring back a toggle in the settings.
keyboard shortcut does not work properly   alt + f + ы
when clicked, the browser does not close
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Alt+F,X to Quit is a usability regression.

Chromium is literally the only application I use on Linux that uses this key combination. Most applications use Ctrl+Q, and various terminals use Ctrl+Shift+Q, for understandable reasons. Is Alt+F,X common in other Linux DEs? It looks like a Windows-ism to me.

Mozilla handles the "Q-is-near-W-on-QWERTY" issue by popping a dialog saying "You are about to close X tabs, are you sure? [Cancel] [Close X Tabs]", along with a checkbox for "Don't ask again". This works well.

Alt+F,X to Quit is a usability regression.

Chromium is literally the only application I use on Linux that uses this key combination. Most applications use Ctrl+Q, and various terminals use Ctrl+Shift+Q, for understandable reasons. Is Alt+F,X common in other Linux DEs? It looks like a Windows-ism to me.

Mozilla handles the "Q-is-near-W-on-QWERTY" issue by popping a dialog saying "You are about to close X tabs, are you sure? [Cancel] [Close X Tabs]", along with a checkbox for "Don't ask again". This works well.
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It works bad, does not work! On the keyboard shortcut Alt + F, X, Google Chrome browser does not close,
the same happens when using the keys Ctrl + Shift + Q, Ctrl + Q
You write that you need to use the keyboard shortcut Alt + F, X, and the Google Chrome browser writes that you need to use the keyboard shortcut Alt + F, S (S = ы)

When you click any combination of Google Chrome browser does not close!!
Thank you, have a nice day!
Don't worry. Similarly to the sequence of events that lead to the notorious and poorly thought decision to remove Ctrl-Shift-Q, in ~10 years a different chromium/Google engineer will condescend to hearing our distress and the feature will be implemented.
possibly related to the translation into Russian? Here is the screen keyboard, or Transcription into the keyboard?
Chrome version:  71.0.3578.98
OS Version: Win 7 x86

Thank you, have a nice day!
Раскладка русская и английская -001.jpg
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Alt + F when in Google Docs/Sheets/etc pulls up the local menu, not the Chrome menu. F10 + Enter is a workaround for that, but it's still a long fall from the previously convenient hotkey.

Why Chrome doesn't let you customize your hotkeys is beyond me, as it flies in the face of all we've learned about UX in the past 50 years. Providing a consistent experience across all devices regardless of device owner is not worth breaking individual user UX, and can still be easily broken by other causes. Since that's the only reasoning I can image anyone having for this lack, I think this experiment can be considered conclusive and options should be given.
The F10 + Enter key combination doesn't work either!
FWIW, I ended up implementing it via an AutoHotKey script that listens on Ctrl-Shift-Q

    #ifwinactive ahk_exe chrome.exe
      ^+q::
        run,
        (ltrim join
          python -c "
            from PyChromeDevTools import ChromeInterface;
            chrome = ChromeInterface(host='localhost',port=9222);
            chrome.Browser.close();
          ",,hide
        )

It uses the remote debugging protocol via PyChromeDevTools command line utility. Once you install python 3, run "python -m pip install PyChromeDevTools". There are many other clients but this one is good enough for me.

Chrome should be started with "--remote-debugging-port=9222" in its command line i.e. in its shortcut properties.

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