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From: isbell@ucscf.UCSC.EDU (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Disabling cmd-q in Terminal
Summary: Use nibeditor to open Terminal menu in IB and remove cmd-q
Keywords: Terminal, nibeditor
Message-ID: <16528@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
Date: 3 Jun 91 05:23:27 GMT
References: <1991Jun2.235028.21517@parc.xerox.com>
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In article <1991Jun2.235028.21517@parc.xerox.com> Lovstrand@EuroPARC.Xerox.COM (Lennart Lovstrand) writes:
>So... Anyone know how to disable cmd-q in Terminal -- preferrably, but
>not necessarily, without patching the app?  Wouldn't mind getting rid
>of cmd-w at the same time.  At second best (and for possible future
>releases), a way of persuading Terminal to ask for confirmation before
>closing a window with a live shell would be a real win.
>
Grab Simon Garfinkel's nibeditor from your favorite NeXT archive site:

   1.  Extract Terminal's .nib files using the extract utility.
   2.  Open Terminal.nib in Interface Builder.
   3.  Select and delete the "q" in the Quit cell in Terminal's menu.
   4.  Repeat for any other keyboard alternatives you want to change.
   5.  Save your changes and exit IB.
   6.  Run the combine utility to produce a new version of Terminal with your
       changes implemented.

You may consider this a patch, but it's pretty trivial because no source code
is changed (you don't even have the source code :-)  I haven't tried it, but
you might even be able to add alert panels similar to the logout alert panel
so you can cancel the Terminal Quit or cancel the closing of a Terminal
window before it happens.
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