Chromebook customization may quickly get a serious improve

Chromebooks are getting a change for the higher in an enormous approach with the flexibility to totally redefine keyboard shortcuts having been noticed in testing with Chrome OS.

About Chromebooks (opens in new tab) noticed that the newest 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 truly enacted, as a result of that is nonetheless early testing for the characteristic.

The truth is, 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 search out the related panel.

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

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

In the mean time, it’s solely attainable to redefine just a few primary parts of the keyboard (like switching the perform of the ‘search’ key for instance). With this alteration, you’ll have full rein over your complete library of shortcuts (in principle 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 maintain their favourite shortcuts from these platforms by remapping them beneath 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 attainable that this characteristic has been in earlier beta variations of Chrome OS, and About Chromebooks has solely simply discovered it. So, Google may need been taking part in round with the idea within the background for some time now, optimistically, and we’ll see it truly debut in beta quickly sufficient, optimistically – after which in launch thereafter.