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Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit.

I have Chrome 16.0.912.63 Beta, and all of a sudden my Ctrl+W shortcut for closing a window has stopped working. It'd driving me nuts because it is one of the most often used shortcuts I use, the others being Space/shift+space, Ctrl+Tab, ctrl+t, and ctrl+r, which all work fine.

I can't figure out why, anyone have any ideas?

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Is it worth reporting to the chrome team? – Colin Newell Dec 13 '11 at 15:57
This should probably be reported to the Chrome team as a bug report instead. – Jorge Castro Dec 13 '11 at 23:30
well, I had to reboot, and now the shortcut works. However, the moment it stopped working was right after I launched it with '--ignore-gpu-blacklist'. not sure if that caused it or not – Matt Dec 14 '11 at 2:56

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does anything else happen on ctrl-w ?

Have you checked gnome settings -> keyboard shortcuts if there is ctrl-w defined, if yes, disable that if you dont need that function.

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Nothing else happens. And ctrl+W is not a shortcut for anything in my gnome keyboard shortcuts. – Matt Dec 13 '11 at 15:56

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