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I've been trying out Spotify for the past few days, and have been annoyed that clicking the X
button in the top right of the window just minimizes it instead of closing it. In fact, even right-clicking it in the task bar and then selecting "close window" won't close it. Neither will Alt-F4.
The only two ways I know of to close it (short of killing it from the task manager) are using File → Exit or right-clicking on the tray icon and selecting Exit. Unfortunately, there don't seem to be any options to change its behavior either.
I've also noticed this behavior in other programs like Google Talk and Skype, but it makes more sense to me there since people typically want them to keep running in the background. However, I don't see why anyone would want Spotify always running even if they weren't listening to music.
Is there a way in Windows 7 to override this behavior so that clicking the X
will force the program to exit? I suppose I could write an AutoHotKey script to make a keyboard shortcut that would exit it, but that seems like a hack.
"In fact, even right-clicking it in the task bar and then selecting "close window" won't close it". If you click Quit Spotify instead then it does close, although it takes a while. It works by calling Spotify via the command line and passing in the special parameters -taskbar spotify:internal:quit. I think it would be near impossible to modify Spotify to behave the way you want as it has several tamper-prevention systems and an auto updater. Perhaps you could suggest to the developers that they add an option to control this behaviour. – James P – 2011-08-25T10:49:33.120
@James Yeah, I'm guessing there's no good way to do it other than getting the Spotify developers themselves to change the code. I did submit a complaint to them about it when I posted this question, but who knows if they'll pay any attention to it. Hopefully, there are others complaining about it as well. – Brandon – 2011-08-25T19:44:11.023