Inside that process, the application may create a window. In Windows, an application lives in a process. Now, lets look at all 3 ways in reverse order. For more information on how to use symbols, emojis please check our How to use Alt-Codes page. Above mentioned procedure is not aplicable for MacOS. Pressing Alt+F4 will just send the WMCLOSE message to the application window. Make sure you switch on the NumLock, press and hold down the Alt key, type the Alt Code value of the degree symbol 0 1 7 6 on the numeric pad, release the Alt key and you got a ° degree symbol. This is the same thing that Alt+F4 works. Maybe Display Fusion breaks the 'activation' of the windows desktop after last closing via Alt F4. The way youre intended to close an application. With Display Fusion, after I've closed last window, there is no icon on my desktop marked in dark. Without Display Fusion, after I've closed last window, the 'cursor' is on some icon on my desktop (icon symbol is marked dark) which seems to be the same like clicking on the desktop. On pressing it again and again after your all maximised window has closed, then it will also shut down the whole computer system. It closes the window which is maximised window which is opened now. Then ENTER and windows goes to hibernation mode. F8 Used to access the boot menu in Windows when turning on the computer. Alt+F4 doesnt close the current minimised window.

Normally I press ALT F4 and close the last few windows and finally the shutdown menu appears.

Since Display Fusion the shortcut mostly doesn't open the windows shutdown menu. But I have just pressed the shortcut a few times quickly and then the known windows shutdown (pulldown) menu appeared. or, when closing last window via ALT F4īefore I have used Display Fusion it could also happen that the shortcut hasn't taken effect at once. any desktop (primary or non-primary display)ĪLT + F4 doesn't work when last click was on: I have just found out, that ALT + F4 may depend on the last click.

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