Also close to tray when Alt+F4 is pressed and the relevant setting is enabled
I use the feature that closes Discord to the Windows system tray when you hit the 'X', but I am also someone who frequently uses Alt+F4 to close my applications. So when I use Alt+F4 on Discord, it closes completely and I normally don't notice until someone messages me via Steam, asking me why I am not responding to their messages on Discord XD
Personally I find this quite annoying and I pray to the gods of Discord to bless us with a fix that also closes Discord to the system tray when Alt+F4 is used.
Being a Windows app developer, you tend to make use of a single event to handle application shutdown logic, so whether you hit the X or use Alt+F4, it gets handled by the same method, and I think that would be a good idea for discord too.
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Since they probably won't fix this, I created a simple solution:
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Only now I realised this is a supposingly "feature"!
I was wondering why my Discord randomly closes completely when I ALT+F4.... OMG just who thought this was a good idea? I have never ever used any other program where ALT+F4 and clicking on X does a different thing from each other.
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+1 here too -- for what I can remember this is the only app ever that treats Alt-F4 differently from the regular Window close button. And I'm very keyboard oriented, so I close off Discord waaay more often than I'd like. So far I used Discord only in gaming sessions where this design flaw was 'only' just a big nuisance (don't alt-tab there too often), but my company has now also started to use it, so I'd rather have it stay open all day, please.
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Hope the prio of this ticket will be raised, because 2 years is a little bit long for this simple task..
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My heart when I saw this thread is over 2 years old, why is alt+f4 an instant kill option where almost no other app I use doesn't support alt f4 -> system tray? :( I keep killing discord calls because I think I'm alt tabbed into a game on my second display..
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I'm moving to Discord from Slack, and apparently I was in the habit of using my Alt+F4 mousebutton macro to minimize Slack to the System Tray, because I am frequently closing Discord by accident.
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s9170 this might help: https://github.com/asheroto/DiscordAltF4
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bump
honestly, nobody addresses this major ux design flaw for all those years?
on every single program on windows, alt-f4 closes the window, not the app if it can be minimized to tray
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This is also an accessibility issue (like already mentioned by ArkiTechyDaddy): there's no way to minimize Discord using the keyboard only.
None of the AutoHotkey scripts that I have seen don't take into account a related bug: after minimizing Discord to the tray, the focus goes to the taskbar instead of the topmost window. So after minimizing Discord to the tray with Alt+F4, you need to press Alt+Tab to focus the topmost window.
My AutoHotkey scripts works flawlessly: https://github.com/mtsknn/AutoHotkey/tree/master/scripts/discord_minimizer
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Yes please, this happens to me all the time! I use Discord for work and sometimes miss important messages because the behavior is not as expected and the program closes completely. I use Alt+F4 on literally every application, way more than any other means of closing them, and I can't seem to (and don't really want to) shake the habit for this one exception.
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This has been bothering me since forever and I just searched to see if it bothered anyone else - signing up just to say please PLEASE separate alt-f4 from close app to it's own hotkey (preferably remappable Ctrl-W to match browsers and explorer etc) or let us remap terminate / close window. This is getting silly, 4 years? Seriously?
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Time to submit a request :)
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