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How can I disable Escape key binding in Zoom?

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
November 3, 2021
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When I press it, it shows the meeting controls while I am sharing my screen. I use the escape key a lot while coding and it is annoying that I have to re-hide the meeting controls every time I hit Escape because it messes with my workflow.

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rattrayalex

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@Liam6 I don't see any option to disable the Escape key binding in the "Keyboard Shortcuts" pane of the Zoom settings window (on macOS). Can you be more specific, perhaps with a screenshot?

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rattrayalex

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I was able to solve this with Hammerspoon (a free alternative to BetterTouchTool) thanks to @whatever1 's tips! See instructions at https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/454144/60586

It allows using Cmd+Opt+Ctrl+H to toggle showing & hiding the menu bar by moving it offscreen, and Esc is never impacted.

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dmitriz

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If you're on mac you could also solve this using Applescript+Automator/Shortcuts.app, without installing any additional tools.

See this post https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/463067/325697

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Frank_TB

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Zoom Hot keys and keyboard shortcuts

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/205683899-Hot-keys-and-keyboard-shortcuts

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Luggnutt

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You will notice that the "esc" key to show floating meeting controls is NOT part of the customizable hot keys and keyboard shortcuts, so this is not helpful.

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eduardogspereir

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This `ESC` issue is extremely annoying. I hope they introduce a way to disable it in future updates. If zoom was not mandatory in my company, I would be already using something else.

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vdommes

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This issue is extremely annoying, I use ESC in IDEs frequently.
The best workaround I've found so far (on Windows) is to drag these controls to another desktop instead of hiding them.

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pranavpagare

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This post has been deleted.

Tried this but doesn't work on system, is there anything that I am missing or how to fix it

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wewade

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This is horrible and zoom needs to do something about it! I have now followed @vdommes example.
Configured an Ahk script that when I press hotkeys sends the window to a neighboring desktop (to the second desktop). And when pressed again, it returns the window to the main desktop (to the first desktop). The VD.ahk module from user FuPeiJiang, which can be found on github, helped me with this. I don't know if you can attach links. But I think by the above nickname you can find it.

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wewade

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Update. No, that didn't work for me after all. When the window is on the second desktop, it takes the focus and automatically switches to the second desktop...

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wewade

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A description of this problem is here:

https://superuser.com/questions/1027873/stop-automatic-switching-of-virtual-desktops-in-windows-10

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