How to bind Tkinter destroy() to a key in Debian?

Question

The following code works correctly in MS Windows (the script exits when pressing q):

import Tkinter as tk

class App():
    def __init__(self):
         


        

Answer 1

With overrideredirect program loses connection with window manage so it seems that it can't get information about pressed keys and even it can't be focused.

MS Windows is one big window manager so it seems that overrideredirect doesn't work on that system.

Maybe you could use self.root.attributes('-fullscreen', True) in place of self.root.overrideredirect(True)

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BTW: for testing I use self.root.after(5000, self.root.destroy) - to kill window after 5s when I can't control it.

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EDIT:

Some (working) example with fullscreen.

With overrideredirect on Linux program can get keyboard events so binding doesn't work, and you can't focus Entry(). But mouse and Button() works. overrideredirect is good for "splash screen" with or without buttons.

import Tkinter as tk

class App():
    def __init__(self):
        self.root = tk.Tk()

        # this works

        self.root.attributes('-fullscreen', True)

        # this doesn't work

        #self.root.overrideredirect(True)
        #self.root.geometry("800x600+100+100") # to see console behind
        #self.root.after(5000, self.appexit) # to kill program after 5s

        self.root.bind('q', self.q_pressed)

        tk.Label(text="some text here").grid()
        e = tk.Entry(self.root)
        e.grid()
        e.focus() # focus doesn't work with overrideredirect 

        tk.Button(self.root, text='Quit', command=self.appexit).grid()

        self.root.mainloop()

    def q_pressed(self, event):
        print "q_pressed"
        self.root.destroy()

    def appexit(self):
        print "appexit"
        self.root.destroy()

App()