Reputation: 427
How can I unbind Command-Control-Space from Mac OS X 10.9?
This shortcut shows Special Characters table and conflicts with my Emacs key binding, and I couldn't disable it from System Preference->Keyboard->Shortcuts
.
Thanks.
Upvotes: 31
Views: 19365
Reputation: 6452
If you're trying to remove this shortcut because it causes Word to read text aloud, change the following setting in Word:
Upvotes: 1
Reputation: 2319
At least on macOS Sierra to macOS Sonoma ⌃Space is the default binding for Select the previous input source which is on by default (even if only one input source is activated).
You can free it by:
Afterwards, you should be able to bind it as expected.
Upvotes: 46
Reputation: 7534
I don't know of any way to disable this, but an alternative option might be to create a shortcut for the app you want to use that in. I created a Command-Control-Space shortcut for Chrome and now Command-Control-Space doesn't bring up the special character palette anymore in Chrome.
failing that you may be better off asking in Apple Stackexchange
Upvotes: 1
Reputation: 11619
You can create custom keyboard shortcuts for most app's menubar choices in System Preferences. If a desired key combination is losing precedence to a default shortcut that you don't use and can't easily disable, simply override it with a new, unobtrusive shortcut.
Open System Prefs / Keyboard / Shortcuts
. Select App Shortcuts
from the left pane. Toggle the All Applications
category's triangle in the main window to point downward (if it's not open already).
If there's an item named Emoji & Symbols
* shown there, then click its shortcut combination and enter a new shortcut (such as option-shift-command-t, in this case).
If there's not an item named Emoji & Symbols
under All Applications
, click the +
button at the bottom, type or copy-paste Emoji & Symbols
, and then enter a new keyboard shortcut (option-shift-command-t, or anything really). This will free the control-command-space combination for you to use as a specialized shortcut elsewhere.
To remove your custom shortcut, just click to highlight it in the main window of this preference pane, and click the –
button at the bottom. The custom shortcut will disappear and the default action will resume.
*Note: On versions older than Mac OS 10.10.3, the menu item is called Special Characters…
instead of Emoji & Symbols
.
Upvotes: 27