How to remap keys in Chrome OS?

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JD. picture JD. · Mar 8, 2013 · Viewed 17.9k times · Source

For someone who uses the Ctrl-W bindings in vim habitually, it is incredibly annoying to have Chrome OS ask me, "Wanna close this window, then?"

How do I remap keys in Chrome OS? Can't find this top secret setting anywhere.

Answer

Alex Shroyer picture Alex Shroyer · Feb 3, 2014

Google just published these extensions which allow you to remap most of the keys, with some caveats.

Also, Chrome OS now* supports remapping the Ctrl, Alt, and Search keys to [Search/Ctrl/Alt/disabled/Esc] without any extensions. See here: chrome://settings/keyboard-overlay#keyboard

*at least as of 33.0.1750.58 (Official Build 247552) beta

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