How to fix Alt-F4?

[grasshopper]

For some reason, now when I hit alt-f4 to close a program, it opens up a terminal window...and I have to hit alt-f4 several times, fast, to close it and close the program. Super annoying. I'm not sure why anyone felt it was a good idea to tie a universal key sequence (alt-f4) into the open term command while the alt-f4 still loosely works.

Assuming it's a glitch unless there is some vaccine damage involved here. How to fix this so Alt-f4 behaves correctly?

[chrispop99]

Please post your Quick System Info.

Chris

[Stuart_M]

I use Alt+F4 many, many times each day, but 2-3 times a year the drop-down Terminal appears (F4), but that is only because I pressed F4 before Alt, probably by only a couple milliseconds.

Do you get the drop-down Terminal if you first press the Alt key and then, after a short separation of time while still holding the Alt key down, press F4?

[Adrian]

As Stuart said, if you really want to change the shortcut for the drop-down terminal you can easily change that in Settings -> Keyboard -> Application shortcuts.

Now that I think about this... some computers have F keys run the alternative option and you need to press Fn + F key to actually run the normal function of the F key. It might be a setting in BIOS or a way to switch that kind of behavior. (sometimes Fn + one of the F keys, Fn+Esc switches the behavior around)

[siamhie]

Now that I think about this... some computers have F keys run the alternative option and you need to press Fn + F key to actually run the normal function of the F key. It might be a setting in BIOS or a way to switch that kind of behavior. (sometimes Fn + one of the F keys, Fn+Esc switches the behavior around)

When I bought my Keychron K3v2 keyboard I had to switch it from Windows to Mac mode so that the windows key would launch rofi instead of the Application Finder, then I had to change the layout so that the function row was first (i.e. F5 refresh browser window) then the multimedia row uses the Fn key (Fn+F5 dims the backlight).

[greevous]

Remove Yakuake from startup.

[antiX-Dave]

Sounds to me like you may have a piece of dirt/debris stuck under the alt key (or the alt key is failing).
f4 alone should run the drop down terminal.
Maybe try using the alt key on the other side of the keyboard (if available) and see if that works better if there is no dirt under the normal alt key.

[manyroads]

You can also check your keyboard key map to make certain that has not changed.

[linexer2016]

Well on my machines, simply pressing F4 brings up the terminal. Alt-F4 should therefore be free to be binded to any other choice. I believe that F4 has always been part of this distro's functionality in bringing up a terminal window. I am uncertain if it is so with all Debian based distros. Manyroads' suggestion to check your keyboard key map seems a good one.