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kasperd
Asked: 2017-04-30 07:45:07 +0800 CST

Closing meld window in 16.04

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In 14.04 I could close a meld window by pressing Ctrlq. But in 16.04 the behavior of that key combination has changed to terminate all currently open invocations of meld rather than just the one I pressed the key combination in.

I also tried Ctrlw, but that can only close individual tabs and the window remains open even if all tabs inside it have been closed.

Is there a keyboard combination which will close a single meld window in 16.04?

16.04

1 Answers

  1. I downgraded Meld to 1.5.3 with the following actions:

    sudo wget http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/m/meld/meld_1.5.3-1ubuntu1_all.deb -O /var/cache/apt/archives/meld_1.5.3-1ubuntu1_all.deb 
sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/meld_1.5.3-1ubuntu1_all.deb 
sudo apt-get install -f    

cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/pin-meld
Package: meld
Pin: version 1.5.3-1ubuntu1
Pin-Priority: 1337
EOF

    It works better for me. It has for example very useful <Ctrl+Shift+R> shortcut and close with <Ctrl+Q>.

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