Chromebook customization could soon get a major upgrade

Date:
Tue, 14 Feb 2023 10:50:49 +0000

Description:
Chromebooks are getting a fix for one of our biggest annoyances with the laptops and its about time.

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Chromebooks are getting a change for the better in a big way with the
ability to fully redefine keyboard shortcuts having been spotted in testing with Chrome OS.

About Chromebooks spotted that the latest beta version of Chrome OS 111 contains a revamped keyboard shortcuts app that allows you to remap those shortcuts as you please.

Now, this functionality isnt working yet you can change the shortcuts in the new panel, but they arent actually enacted, because this is still early testing for the feature.

In fact, the shortcuts app is still hidden to testers in the Chrome OS 111 beta, and you have to mess about with some experimental flags to find the relevant panel.

Even so, its great to see that the ability to customize your own shortcuts is incoming for Chrome OS. Analysis: An easier life for people migrating to a Chromebook

This isnt a great surprise as for quite some time now there have been reports that Google is planning to bring this functionality to Chrome OS.

At the moment, its only possible to redefine a few basic elements of the keyboard (like switching the function of the search key for example). With this change, youll have full rein over the entire library of shortcuts (in theory anyway, if the final implementation pans out as it looks now).

This means those who are more used to a Windows or macOS system can keep
their favorite shortcuts from those platforms by remapping them under Chrome OS, making their everyday computing life easier on a Chromebook (perhaps one that theyve just bought which is completely new to them).

Its possible that this feature has been in previous beta versions of Chrome OS, and About Chromebooks has only just found it. So, Google might have been playing around with the concept in the background for a while now, with any luck, and well see it actually debut in beta soon enough, with any luck and then in release thereafter.

Via Toms Hardware



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