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How to change Control–Command–Space bar?

Hi There,


How do we change the shortcut for Control–Command–Space bar or turn it off?


If we go to System Prefs > Keyboard > Shortcuts the shortcut isn't listed.


Any help would be much appreciated.


Cheers

Mac Pro, macOS 10.14

Posted on Mar 18, 2020 11:56 AM

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Posted on Mar 18, 2020 2:38 PM

Vendors are supposed to check for hard wired keyboard commands in the OS so they don't assign the same keystroke in their apps. But I think this one is kind of recent, so may have not been a problem before.


But anywho, this is actually very simple. It goes right back to the System Preferences as I noted above. The command for the Emoji placement is right there in the Finder menu:



All you need to do is assign it a different keystroke. Open the System Preference and open the Keyboard panel. Click on the Shortcuts tab, and then App Shortcuts. Click the + button to create a new entry.


Make sure to type in the name exactly the same as the OS has it. Then type in any keystroke you want to change it to. Here, I used a keystroke I would very likely never use, need or ever even accidentally hit.



Click the Add button.


That's it. The emoji character palette will no longer appear when you press Command+Ctrl+Space, and your 3D app should do what's normally assigned to that keystroke.

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Mar 18, 2020 2:38 PM in response to cmscss

Vendors are supposed to check for hard wired keyboard commands in the OS so they don't assign the same keystroke in their apps. But I think this one is kind of recent, so may have not been a problem before.


But anywho, this is actually very simple. It goes right back to the System Preferences as I noted above. The command for the Emoji placement is right there in the Finder menu:



All you need to do is assign it a different keystroke. Open the System Preference and open the Keyboard panel. Click on the Shortcuts tab, and then App Shortcuts. Click the + button to create a new entry.


Make sure to type in the name exactly the same as the OS has it. Then type in any keystroke you want to change it to. Here, I used a keystroke I would very likely never use, need or ever even accidentally hit.



Click the Add button.


That's it. The emoji character palette will no longer appear when you press Command+Ctrl+Space, and your 3D app should do what's normally assigned to that keystroke.

Mar 18, 2020 1:05 PM in response to D.I. Johnson

Hmm, hard to say for sure since the OP doesn't even mention emojis. However, I do see I incorrectly referred to Command+Option+Space rather than Command+Ctrl+Space.


But, you can override it in the System Preferences. Here I added it to take over the system's Command+V for Paste.



That's also how it now shows up in the OS and app menus.



To undo it, just delete the entry you made.

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