Anyone else find themselves with spazzy hands like mine, frequently hitting ctrl+q and ctrl+w when reaching for a ctrl+e or 1,2,3? Is there anyway to disable those close and quit hot keys? Doctors orders, or else I'll have to go on blood pressure meds ha

You might try to send "perf 1" message to pd, so it will ask before closing any window.
Or install the kiosk plugin https://git.iem.at/pd/kiosk-plugin
Or, remove shortcuts in the pd_bindings.tcl, but it would be better wit a plugin if you know tcl scripting.

@godintrash all you need to do is bind the key combination to nothing. In a plaint text file put the following and save it somewhere in your path.

bind all <$::modifier-Key-w> {}
bind all <$::modifier-Key-q> {}

Edit: PureData binds the capital W and capital Q to close and quit as well, so you still will have the option to do ctl-shift-w/q to close or quit and if the caps lock is on ctl-w/q will close or quit. If you want to get rid of those as well just add binds to nothing for W and Q as well.

@6ohz I didn't know pd had a kiosk mode, that was going to be another question of mine.
@oid do i need to save the text file with a particular name?

@oid that only works for windows that don't bind to modifier-Key-w explicitly bc of bindtags order
(so you also have to bind to e.g. .pdwindow)
I also couldn't figure out how to catch Cmd-q on MacOS

@godintrash, Standard convention is name-plugin.tcl, I have no idea if the convention is required by pd or just a convention, makes sense to follow it and I have always done so.