Tip: Close Windows and Dialog Windows Without the Mouse

[BlackSpectre]

Sometimes it's just hard to click that tiny corner button on a window to close it. Maybe you got invited to a team but you don't want to reach for your mouse. OR... maybe you'd just like a big macro button in your power trays to click on instead of those pesky window corner buttons?  Well never fear! The /gamereturn command can come to the rescue!

 

This command closes ALL dialogs and non-essential windows in one go. But if it closes a window you don't want closed, no problem! Just add the /show_window command after it to re-open those windows at the same time!

 

I admit I'm a little crazy. I like a button that can cancel EVERYTHING!!! So I turned my ESC key into one! Mu ha ha ha ha ha ha! Behold! The ALL POWERFUL CANCEL BUTTON!!!!

/bind ESC "unselect$$powexec_unqueue$$powexec_abort$$gamereturn$$show tray1$$show tray2$$show tray3$$show map$$show pet"

 

I run with all 3 power trays from the Tray window, plus 3 additional floating trays, the Map window, and the Pet window. It's my standard setup for the UI. The bind above removes these "extra" windows and puts them right back!

 

According to the Wiki, the windows that are immune to this effect and will remain after executing /gamereturn are:

 

Status

Tray

Inspirations

Target

Chat

Nav

Attribute Monitor

Custom Window

 

I hope you enjoyed finding out about the /gamereturn (AKA /Window_Close_Extra) command. I'll try to regale you all with another obscure command next week. Until then...  keep the city safe, cirizen!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited Sunday at 10:16 PM by BlackSpectre

[Ukase]

For hamidon raids, is there a way to minimize the reward window and bring it back up when you're ready to take the full reward the next day? I'd heard a whisper there was a way...but I do not know that way. 

[macskull]

I just bind a key to /dialogyes and another key to /dialogno, which covers most routine popups.

[BlackSpectre]

On 9/14/2025 at 5:52 AM, Ukase said:

For hamidon raids, is there a way to minimize the reward window and bring it back up when you're ready to take the full reward the next day? I'd heard a whisper there was a way...but I do not know that way. 

I don't know for sure, Ukase. I can tell you that on a BAF trial, if you don't choose the reward inside the mission, you can just leave the reward window open and then choose it once you've exited the BAF. So it's possible that just logging out before choosing the reward will keep it available until you log back in, but I've never wanted to try this because it would risk losing my reward just to find out. 

 

As for minimizing (i.e., closing) the reward window, /gamereturn should do it, but you'd need to know the name of the window to be able to open it again, which I don't. It might open automatically when you log back into the game, though... but again, never wanted to risk it, so I'm not sure. 

Edited 2 hours ago by BlackSpectre

[srmalloy]

10 minutes ago, BlackSpectre said:

I can tell you that on a BAF trial, if you don't choose the reward inside the mission, you can just leave the reward window open and then choose it once you've exited the BAF.

It's not a trial or a Hami raid, but you can do the same thing with the reward window from Heather Townsend's "Burden of the Past" arc, as well as the repeatable missions from Ephram Sha in DA.

[macskull]

56 minutes ago, BlackSpectre said:

So it's possible that just logging out before choosing the reward will keep it available until you log back in

The reward windows have always worked this way, they'll stay there until you choose an option even if you're logged out.

[Ukase]

So, I know the reward window remains available for days if you don't choose a reward. But /gamereturn nameOfWindow should work. Now I just need to find the name of that window. Ultimately, it's not that big of a deal; it's why I've made multiple characters with the same powerset/builds, so while one is sitting there waiting for time to pass to choose the next reward, another can do something else without that screen in my way.