Disabling keyboard shortcuts

  • mmihelic

    (@mmihelic)


    10 years ago

    Hi!

    How do I go about disabling keyboard shortcuts? Either disabling them alltogether or disabling just specific ones would be great.

    For instance, the shortcut (right ALT) + F causes tinyMCE to enter fullscreen mode, when trying to insert a left bracket character “[“.
    Our users have been reporting their dislike of this behaviour.

    We are running a network installation so editing the theme’s functions.php does not work for us. We could stick something into wp-settings.php though.

    Kind regards,
    mmihelic

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  • jack randall

    (@theotherlebowski)

    why are you hitting alt+F to insert a square bracket? you don’t even need to press shift on either pc or mac!

    Thread Starter mmihelic

    (@mmihelic)

    Not everyone in the world uses the UK/US keyboard layout.
    In our country the UK/US keys for {[]} are used for ????. So the only way to get [ is by pressing AltGr + f.
    So on our site about 3000 users are affected by this.
    Mac and Linux does not have this problem. It seems to be a Windows only problem, regardless of the browser used. That’s still 3000 users.

    jack randall

    (@theotherlebowski)

    i see, apologies for assuming a US/UK layout as a global standard! oops…

    take a look at this: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/deactivating-tinymce-keyboard-shortcut?replies=5

    hope this works. ??

    Thread Starter mmihelic

    (@mmihelic)

    I tried that. First I put the code right into the functions.php of a theme. It did not work. EDIT: The theme was used on the site I was testing on.
    I also tried putting the code at the end of wp-settings.php but no luck there either.
    Maybe the hook or option name have changed in the last 7 to 11 months since that thread was written.

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