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mbl
mbl

Reputation: 925

How to really disable ctrl+shift+arrow keys in Windows Terminal Preview?

Everytime I try to use ctrl-shift-up or ctrl-shift-down inside of the new windows terminal preview, it scrolls the terminal view up or down. I tried going into the profiles.json file and set the "command" : "scrollDown" and "command" : "scrollUp" to "unbound" but it has no effect.

If I try to bind scollUp to something else, let's say ctrl+alt+b, then it correctly adds the keybind to the command. It seems like there's a default windows keybinding that is set to scroll the terminal view up and down using ctrl+shift+arrows.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1364

Answers (2)

Rafael Kuhn
Rafael Kuhn

Reputation: 67

you can add

{ "command": { "action": "sendInput", "input": "\u0000" }, "keys": "ctrl+shift+up" },
{ "command": { "action": "sendInput", "input": "\u0000" }, "keys": "ctrl+shift+down" },

so when you press the keys, it replaces the undesirable command with sending a null character to the input (that, of course, does nothing lol)

Upvotes: 0

Pikimix
Pikimix

Reputation: 54

Not sure if you found the answer, but I was looking for this too. Found the below in a microsfot devblog that works currently:

If there is a default key binding included in the defaults.json file that you would like to free up, you can set that key binding to null in your profiles.json.

{
"command": null, "keys": ["ctrl+shift+w"]
}

Link to full article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-preview-1910-release/

Upvotes: 3

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