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Command Q/W quitting game on Mac solved

Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2020 9:04 am
by melons
For anyone who is on the Mac and accidentally pressed Command + Q or W then you'll know it just quits the game out right, I've now worked out the solution to stop this. You need to replace the 'Close' (Command+W) shortcut and reassign the Command + Q shortcut

Go to
Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts

Sorting the Command+W (Close)
Click the + and select OpenRa add Menu Title 'Close" then for keyboard shortcut choose the one you want ie Command+Shift+W

If you test it you should find Command+W no longer closes the window and you now have to include the shift key to close the window.

Command + Q
For this I reassign the key, click the + and for Menu Title use 'Zoom' and keyboard shortcut use Command+Q

This should now disable the Command+Q for quitting the game.

Hope this helps someone.

Re: Command Q/W quitting game on Mac solved

Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2020 6:47 am
by Punsho
In the next release openra will suppress CMD + Q

Re: Command Q/W quitting game on Mac solved

Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2020 6:02 pm
by melons
Cool

Re: Command Q/W quitting game on Mac solved

Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2020 2:00 pm
by schube
Thank you!

Re: Command Q/W quitting game on Mac solved

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2020 8:30 am
by Lukeerth
A short guide by Giampaolo Rossi >> OpenRA Guide: Chapter Two: Time, Build orders and shortcuts! thelinuxgames (dot) blogspot (dot) com
+ Just a reminder of the hotkeys:
https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/wiki/Hotkeys

Re: Command Q/W quitting game on Mac solved

Posted: Sat May 14, 2022 6:24 am
by melons
Incase anyone is having the game random quit it on a MAC then it might still be this problem, although the game now initially surprises the CMD + W or CMD + Q if by accident you his either combination multiple times then the game still quits, the only way to stop this is by implementing the shortcut method above it seems