Electron Browser Window Prevent Control+W closing window

Question

I have an electron js app with Angular 8. If the user performs the command control+w, it automatically closes the window. I try looking through the BrowserWindow Api, however, I couldn't find a flag or handler to prevent this behavior from happening.

Answer 1

You need to change or remove the default application menu which has this shortcut Window -> Close Ctrl+W by default

Menu.setApplicationMenu(null) // remove default application menu

// or

browserWindow.setMenu(null) // just remove default menu of a specific window and not all windows

This should do the trick

Relevant docs:

• Menu.setApplicationMenu(menu)
• win.setMenu(menu)