Hello Paul! Not a KDE user on my Arch Box, but I was able to achieve somewhat what you want on my Ubuntu 21.04 tablet with Plasma 5.21.4 under X11. It's a way to basically trigger certain actions (or not) through keystrokes, depending on the active window (among other things). This feature is hidden in the Settings under Shortcuts > Custom Shortcuts. There you can define a group that matches certain windows, like Firefox, and remap Ctrl+W via a so-called global shortcut (which is misleading, since the group defines that only Firefox windows should be matched). Some documentation I found online is this PDF from KDE [1]. Regards, Alex [1] https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/khotkeys/kcontrol/khotkeys/khotkeys.pdf "Paul Dann via arch-general" <arch-general@lists.archlinux.org> writes:
Has anyone been able to figure out how to disable the Ctrl-W shortcut in Firefox? As a Vim user I'm constantly accidentally closing tabs when I want to delete the last word in a text field.
It seems to be _very_ difficult to find a reliable method to do this short of recompiling Firefox. I use Plasma Desktop. If there's some way to filter events going to the browser window, that's a viable solution too, but I haven't found any way so far.
Many thanks, Paul