In Close a matplotlib figure using keyboard I learned that you can add keybinds to various matplotlib commands, including key.quit which exits the plot.
The keybinds can be assigned via:
plt.rcParams["keymap.quit"] = ['ctrl+w', 'cmd+w', 'q']
However, when I add space or spacebar to the list, space doesn't work. I know that list is defaults, so either I'm not modifying them at all or I have the name for spacebar wrong.
Does anyone know how to do this?
There is a paucity of documentation on exactly what the key mappings are for this functionality, but you can find out with this code snippet:
>>> from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
>>> fig = plt.figure()
>>> fig.canvas.mpl_connect('key_press_event', lambda evt: print(repr(evt.key)))
8
Then
>>> plt.show()
will open an empty plot window. Pressing keys in the window will print to your terminal the associated keymap code.
When pressing the space bar I get:
' '
Confirmed that setting plt.rcParams['keymap.quit'].append(' ') works--pressing the space bar closes the window.