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Disable Command-Q for quitting applications
Authored by: waynerrr on Oct 26, '09 04:49:01AM

i decided to bring alive this old post to today (November 2009 almost)

I really use a lot of keyboard shortcuts

But, I really dislike the Command Q (apple key + Q) command because I was sick to death of "quitting without warning" applications by accidently hitting the wrong shortcut (e..g I use command+A (select all) often) and this is so close to the "quit" shortcut

anyhow I'm on Leopard & i didnt fancy risking commands in the terminal so i did this
"system pref" keyboard & mouse" I changed "show help menu" to command+Q (you can change anther one if you dont fancy altering this one)

thus the result is I've completely disabled the ability to quit Apps


P.S. I think command + Q to quit without warning is a horrible shortcut and one that causes me regular inconvenience.



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Disable Command-Q for quitting applications
Authored by: glenno on Nov 19, '09 08:34:55PM

You rock! THANK YOU for posting this.

I sure wish these universal shortcuts could be re-assigned within applications (I like Cmd-Q to do something else in Word, e.g.), but this is a great fix for the bigger QUIT problem on Macs!

ETA: Oh, looks like Calvarez may have posted about that above.

Edited on Nov 19, '09 08:37:26PM by glenno



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Disable Command-Q for quitting applications
Authored by: glenno on Nov 20, '09 06:07:29PM

Oh wait -- so I still can't assign Command-Q to a keyboard shortcut in Word. Drat. I've used such a shortcut for a decade on the PC, is there ANY way to do this? Even if I assign it in System Prefs it doesn't work, the command doesn't have a name that's recognized I guess.



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