Exit when last tab closed?

[Kelstertx]

I searched and didn't find anything on this topic....

I can't believe there isn't a setting to allow Sumatra to exit the program when the last tab is closed. I have been waiting years for that feature... Am I missing it somehow? Like maybe in the Advanced settings file?

[kjk]

q does exact that: closes a tab and exits program if that's a last tab

[GitHubRulesOK]

In untabbed mode all windows are singletons so closing last window closes program Q is the keyboard equivalent

In Tabbed mode as mentioned you can use q with the single tab, It is ever so simple to close ALL tabs since windows apps should close using F4 there is also CTRL+Q as an alternative.

Closing last tab in tabs mode is designed to simply go back to either the start tab or frequently read without asking are you wanting to close application

[thomas-mc-work]

Wouldn't it be possible to let ctrl + w do the same thing when tabs are disabled? The purpose is that I don't want to have an MDI interface, but only SDI. So if there is no document - then there shall be no application window.

[doubletrouble023]

Yes, this!
I did not know about Q closing until finding this thread. I always close with ctrl + w and I find it annoying that I can't close the program itself the same way when theres no more open documents

[viadee-BiM]

You can achieve this behaviour by adding the following to the advanced options file:

Shortcuts [
    [
        Cmd = CmdCloseCurrentDocument
        Key = Ctrl + w
    ]
]

Now Ctrl+W acts the same way as just pressing "q" (cf. https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/docs/Commands) :).

[doubletrouble023]

Whoa! you're a wizard mate! Thanks, that did the trick.
I love software that allows for customization!

[viadee-BiM]

Happy to help, I was struggling with the same thing :)!

All the kudos go out to the SumatraPDF developers and community ❤️!

[thomas-mc-work]

Thanks a lot @viadee-BiM!

For other users: Just be sure to replace the existing (probably empty) Shortcuts section somewhere in the middle of the config file. In the first try I've just appended it at the end which was then removed on the next application start.