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arongp
arongp

Reputation: 427

How to unbind Command-Control-Space key from Mac OS X 10.9?

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

Answers (4)

Noumenon
Noumenon

Reputation: 6452

If you're trying to remove this shortcut because it causes Word to read text aloud, change the following setting in Word:

  • Select Tools > Customize Keyboard
  • Choose All Commands on left, ReadAloud on right
  • Remove Ctrl+Opt+Space shortcut.

Upvotes: 1

einSelbst
einSelbst

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:

  1. Open System Preferences
  2. Go to Keyboard > Shortcuts > Input Sources
  3. Untick "Select the previous input source"

Afterwards, you should be able to bind it as expected.

Upvotes: 46

Brad Allred
Brad Allred

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

5260452
5260452

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

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