Chris,

If you have the #mouseOverForKeyboardFocus preference set to false 
(which I always do, so that I can always have immediate access to the 
"desktop command keys",) then you can close the active window from 
the keyboard by hitting cmd-w while the mouse is *not* over the 
window.

It's true that you may need to *nudge* the mouse, with the button up, 
to get the cursor position outside the bounds of the active window.

Another way, that works *wherever* the cursor may be, is to hit 
shift-ESC (which brings up the world menu) followed by cmd-w.  For 
this alternative to work, the menuKeyboardControl preference needs to 
be set to true.

   -- Scott


At 2:43 PM -0800 2/2/02, Chris Muller wrote:
>...One of the #1 things I would like to be able to do is
>close the current window with the keyboard.  But I
>have not been able to find a quick and easy way to do
>it.  The problem seems whatever morph is under the
>hand gets keyboard focus.  The commands only work if
>you do, in fact, touch the mouse to give focus to the
>desktop or something..