topic Re: Disable Keyboard Shortcuts - Physical Keyboard in Tablets

Disable Keyboard Shortcuts - Physical Keyboard

BigEgg — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 16:36:24 GMT

Hello, I'm not sure if there's an official place to post suggestions, but I am having a slight issue with my Galaxy Tab A8

In Settings/General Management/Physical Keyboard there is an option called Keyboard Shortcuts.
It would be nice to have the the option to disable these.

The reason for being, is that I'd like to use my tablet occasionally for remote connecting to my desktop PC.
This works fairly well, except for that when I try to use some windows keyboard shortcuts, for example Ctrl+S to save my work, android will launch messages.

Re: Disable Keyboard Shortcuts - Physical Keyboard

Members_gdSODOp — Sat, 27 May 2023 08:05:45 GMT

I have the same problem.

Re: Disable Keyboard Shortcuts - Physical Keyboard

dj_pask — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 15:20:46 GMT

I also have the physical keyboard shortcuts problem: I'm using VNC client on a Galaxy tab 8 ultra to remote deskop to a linux workstation, and I use an external bluetooth keyboard: alt-tab combination and super (windows) keys are not sent to the remote system, but trigger an android action, that is not what I want, and not what is reasonably expected to happen.

I had a similar problem with shadow tech client, which is the reason I abandoned the idea of using it on the samsung android tablet.
At the moment, I have still not found a solution to overcome this issue.

I think that remote desktop access is a perfect use case for the ultra tablets, given the large screen: hope samsung will implement the option to disable physical keyboard shortcuts and the ability to pass all keys combinations to the remote system without triggering actions in the underlying android

Re: Disable Keyboard Shortcuts - Physical Keyboard

Members_SPoPU27 — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 12:30:12 GMT

I have the exact same problem. Some feedback on this would be much appreciated!

Re: Disable Keyboard Shortcuts - Physical Keyboard

Ghost Vapor — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 23:01:42 GMT

I have similar problem where I try to write ? while writing an email on gmail it instead opens the keyboard shortcuts tips. It is so dumb.

Re: Disable Keyboard Shortcuts - Physical Keyboard

DesertDrifter — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 17:37:10 GMT

I have the same problem using physical keyboard shift ? brings up a keyboard shortcut screen.

Re: Disable Keyboard Shortcuts - Physical Keyboard

gnudgnaoh — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 09:39:26 GMT

I have the same issue; please just add an option to disable the shortcuts.

Re: Disable Keyboard Shortcuts - Physical Keyboard

Members_SPoPU27 — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 16:20:15 GMT

I have the same problem as well. It would be great to disable these shortcuts since the Win and Alt keys, in particular, are often used when remote connecting.

Re: Disable Keyboard Shortcuts - Physical Keyboard

Members_SPoPU27 — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 17:43:40 GMT

Found a great temporary solution for remote connecting to a Windows 11 OS.

Inside the Win11 OS, you can use `Microsoft Powertoys`, specifically the `Keyboard Manager` tab, in order to Remap a key or a shortcut to another shortcut.

I personally have mapped my `Alt (Right)` key to the `Alt (Left) + Tab` sequence, which works perfectly. You could do a similar mapping for other sequences as well.

You don't need to have this enabled all the time. Just start Powertoys whenever you're remote connecting and you'll be good to go.

Re: Disable Keyboard Shortcuts - Physical Keyboard

RageEngineer — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 10:33:22 GMT

Sameeee!

I think the Samsung Keyboard works great, but some shortcuts overlap with my regional diacritics and it's annoying. The shortcuts aren't useful at all, while the diacritics they cover I use all the time. Wish there was an option to disable a couple.

Re: Disable Keyboard Shortcuts - Physical Keyboard

FELIXCOQ — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 07:37:31 GMT

Had this Tab for 4 months now, just bought a keyboard for it to make my work on my Tab at home,but it keeps overwritting my commands on microsoft excel and sheets. Its so annoying, i hope they make a disable feature for this ;;