When switching between Chromebooks and Windows or macOS machines, you may encounter issues navigating between different sets of keyboard shortcuts. But it looks like we’ll soon be able to do this a little easier. Experimental features in ChromeOS 111 Beta show progress on changes to operating system shortcuts.
Kevin C. Toffel About Chromebooks The first change I noticed was to be able to view the version of the View Keyboard Shortcuts app (although creating custom shortcuts wasn’t working yet, he said).A very early iteration has been published on our YouTube channel chrome storylate last year, but now you can try it yourself.
With the experimental flag enabled, you can navigate to Settings > Devices > Keyboard > Show keyboard shortcutsBy clicking on Shortcuts you can add new shortcuts (which don’t really seem to work yet) or customize existing shortcuts. It has the potential to effectively remap all shortcuts to your liking.
Tofel enabled three experimental flags in the ChromeOS 111 Beta channel.
- chrome://flags#improved-keyboard-shortcuts
- chrome://flags#enable-shortcut-customization-app
- chrome://flags#enable-shortcut-customization
When you see the full version of these customization options depends on how long it takes ChromeOS 111 to go through the beta process and reach general availability. The latest stable channel update for ChromeOS came in late January and jumped the version 109.0.5414.
The final full release will be a big achievement that brings Chrome together with other operating systems that are more flexible in this area. However, beta users who leave the flag enabled may slowly build out the full feature before it stabilizes.
