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namuol
Asked: 2013-01-25 21:26:00 +0800 CST

How do I Remove/Customize Unity Keyboard Shortcuts?

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Is there any way to remove or configure the following Unity keyboard shortcuts?

I want to make use of these keyboard shortcuts, but I have no use for what they're currently assigned to.

  • Super+M (Music Search)
  • Super+A (Application Search)
  • Super+C (Picture Search)

The keyboard settings utility does not show these anywhere.

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You need to remove existing lense keyboard binding.

    • To do so, open a nautilus with with root by executing gksu nautilus

    • Navigate to /usr/share/unity/lenses, Now goto appropriate lenses directory .

    • Inside the folder, there will be a Shortcut field, remove or edit as you want.

      Source

    To assign new command for these shortcut, you need to install compizconfig-settings-manager Install compizconfig-settings-manager and use Commands section at top.

    More config info - How can I configure Unity?

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  2. For Ubuntu 16.04 the steps are different:

    Open a terminal

    Become root 

    sudo su -

    The lenses are now apparently controlled by scopes

    cd /usr/share/unity/scopes

    The next command will show the files that contain a shortcut definition

    grep -R "Short" *

    Make a copy of the existing files (just in case) and verify they copied.

    mkdir ~/scopes
cp -rp * ~/scopes
ls -Rl ~/scopes

    Remove all the Shortcut entries - if you would rather just disabled some of the shortcuts, then edit the specific files that returned from the previous command.

    find ./ -type f -exec sed '/Shortcut/,+1 d' {} \;

    Verify all the shortcuts are removed

    grep -R "Short" *

    This takes effect immediately. The shortcuts do not disappear from Keyboard Shortcuts menu, however.

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