How can I disable the Keyboard Shortcut ctrl+shift+c in Google Chrome to bring up the Developer Tools console?
I find myself trying to copy+paste content from the browser and mistakenly typing ctrl+shift+c when I really want to do ctrl+c instead.
How can I disable the current keyboard binding or change ctrl+shift+c to do the same as ctrl+c in Google Chrome?
5 Answers
I've managed to make it work with shortkeys:
- Keyboard shortcut:
ctrl+shift+c - Behavior: Run JavaScript
- Javascript code to run:
document.execCommand('copy')
Then just hit Save and reload tabs for the new setting to take effect.
2Edit:
The originally suggested solution is no longer available.
The one provided by Paweł Prażak currently work and actually copies the text to the clipboard.
I was able to successfully override the Ctrl+Shift+C shortcut by using the Shortcut Manager extension and creating a new shortcut for the key combination.
You can then reassign it to trigger a host of pre-configured actions, or any javascript / bookmarklet code of your choosing. I don't really have any experience with javascript, so I can't really figure out how to make it act like Ctrl+C, but as far simply preventing it from bringing up the Developer Tools console, simply setting it to execute:
<script></script>seems to work.
2You can do that with Shortcut Manager and document.execCommand('copy') command, which were added to Google Chrome 43+ (~April 2015)
After attempting the shortkeys (Chrome Extension) approach and finding it unreliable, I was able to solve this problem using AutoKey.
First, sudo apt install autokey-gtk. Then, launch AutoKey, create a new script, set the Hotkey to be Ctrl+Shift+C, the window filter to be chromium-browser.Chromium-browser, and the script contents to be keyboard.send_keys('<ctrl>+c').
Once the script is saved, pressing Ctrl+Shift+C in Chromium will copy to the system clipboard instead of displaying the dev tools.
0After attempting the shortkeys (Chrome Extension) approach and finding it unreliable, I was able to solve this problem using AutoKey.
First,
sudo apt install autokey-gtk. Then, launch AutoKey, create a new script, set the Hotkey to be Ctrl+Shift+C, the window filter to bechromium-browser.Chromium-browser, and the script contents to bekeyboard.send_keys('<ctrl>+c').Once the script is saved, pressingCtrl+Shift+C in Chromium will copy to the system clipboard instead of displaying the dev tools.
The above suggestion from @Ollin worked for me but I had to change the Window Filter to: google-chrome.Google-chromeon Ubuntu 18.04.03 LTS
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