Chromebooks are getting a change for the higher in a giant means with the power to completely redefine keyboard shortcuts having been noticed in testing with Chrome OS.

About Chromebooks (opens in new tab) noticed that the most recent beta model of Chrome OS 111 accommodates a revamped keyboard shortcuts app that lets you remap these shortcuts as you please.

Now, this performance isn’t working but – you possibly can change the shortcuts within the new panel, however they aren’t really enacted, as a result of that is nonetheless early testing for the function.

In truth, the shortcuts app continues to be hidden to testers within the Chrome OS 111 beta, and you must mess about with some experimental flags to seek out the related panel.

Even so, it’s nice to see that the power to customise your personal shortcuts is incoming for Chrome OS.

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This isn’t an important shock as for fairly a while now there have been stories that Google is planning to deliver this performance to Chrome OS.

For the time being, it’s solely doable to redefine a number of fundamental parts of the keyboard (like switching the perform of the ‘search’ key for instance). With this variation, you’ll have full rein over the complete library of shortcuts (in idea anyway, if the ultimate implementation pans out because it appears to be like now).

This implies those that are extra used to a Home windows or macOS system can preserve their favourite shortcuts from these platforms by remapping them underneath Chrome OS, making their on a regular basis computing life simpler on a Chromebook (maybe one which they’ve simply purchased which is totally new to them).

It’s doable that this function has been in earlier beta variations of Chrome OS, and About Chromebooks has solely simply discovered it. So, Google might need been taking part in round with the idea within the background for some time now, hopefully, and we’ll see it really debut in beta quickly sufficient, hopefully – after which in launch thereafter.

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