Secondary Window: Cmd-W / Ctrl-W closes window when Quick Switcher is open

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Steps to reproduce

Open a new Obsidian window. Open various notes as tabs. When viewing a note, Ctrl+W closes the tab (expected behavior).

Open a blank tab with Ctrl+T. Ctrl+W closes this blank tab (expected behavior).

While in a blank tab, open Quick Switcher with Ctrl+O. Ctrl+W now closes the whole window and all the associated tabs (unexpected behavior).

There is no “undo closed window,” and using Ctrl+Shift+T after you accidentally close a window only results in one of the closed tabs from the window reopening.

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N]

Yes

Expected result

Ctrl+W closes the current tab, even if Quick Switcher is active.

Actual result

When Quick Switcher is active, Ctrl+W closes the entire window.

Environment

Manjaro Linux 70, Obsidian version 1.12.7

Additional information

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How was obsidian installed?

Does it happen in the sandbox vault?

What is the output of “show debug info” command?

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Install: via pamac

Happens in sandbox?: yes

Debug info:
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: 1.12.7
Installer version: 1.12.7
Operating system: #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sun, 24 May 2026 04:47:00 +0000 7.0.10-1-MANJARO
Login status: logged in
Language: en
Catalyst license: none
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: off
Plugins installed: 6
Plugins enabled: 6
1: Emoji Shortcodes v2.2.0
2: Meld Encrypt v2.4.0
3: Tasks v7.19.1
4: Task Genius v8.10.1
5: Highlightr v1.2.2
6: Recent Files v1.7.7

For clarity, this only happens in a secondary window. If you Ctrl+W when Quick Switcher is open in the primary window of the vault, nothing happens.

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Pamac?

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It’s the package manager for Manjaro. It gives you pacman (Arch) and some other things (e.g. Flatpack).

It’s sourcing Obsidian from the “extra” Arch repo. (I can’t link directly here but it’s at archlinux . org / packages / extra / x86_64 / obsidian.) It’s the same build I would get if I used pacman.

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Ok, for the future, in the BR template there is this sentence, which perhaps you missed

  • We only accept bug reports that are reproducible with the installation methods we provide on our website. If you obtained obsidian elsewhere, you MUST reproduce the problem with one of the officially supported installation methods. (No ARCH, NixOS, homebrew, chocolatey, third party packages).

That being said, I can reproduce this problem.

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Understood. Thanks for investigating.