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Chromebooks to Get a Shortcut Customization App

April 8, 2021 by Dinsan Francis | Updated: April 8, 2021 1 Comment

Google is adding a shortcut customization app to Chrome OS. According to a new experimental flag, this app lets you customize system shortcuts.

Shortcut System Web App

You might have noticed Chrome OS moving different parts of settings and the operating system to System Web Apps or SWAs. The new shortcut customizatio app is also going to be another SWA in Chrome OS.

We do not have more information on this change yet. However, you can find a few more code change requests for the shortcuts SWA here on the Chromium Gerrit website.

My best guess is that we will find the Device > Keyboard section of Chrome OS settings in this new SWA.

Chromebook keyboard settings

Here is the new Chrome OS flag to enable this SWA:

Enable shortcut customization app: Enable the shortcut customization SWA, allowing users to customize system shortcuts.

Do you have a different theory? Let me know in the comments section below.

Source: Chromium Gerrit.

Filed Under: Chromebook

About Dinsan Francis

Content Strategist and Digital Minimalist. Loves testing new Chromebook features and writing about them. Favorite Chrome OS Channel is Canary. | Twitter

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  1. CajunMoses says

    April 9, 2021 at 6:18 pm

    Need ability to put Caps-Lock back where it belongs. Search should be assignable to a key that no one ever uses, like the browser Page-Forward key. Most recent Back-light brightness setting needs to be persistent. And back light should only remain on while keystrokes continue.

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