<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[How can I disable the ctrl-space keyboard shortcut?]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Hi everyone.</p>
<p dir="auto">Just re-installed OS for my laptop and switched from Chrome to Opera 18, which IMO, acts way better in low-memory environment and still as fast as Chrome (Great job, Opera team!)</p>
<p dir="auto">But there is several things really annoys me. The first one is this ctrl-space keyboard shortcut.<br />
I'm a Chinese user, I use ctrl-space as keyboard shortcut to switch between IME &amp; non-IME modes.<br />
For some reason I don't know, my IME doesn't work in Opera's address bar. That's fine, since I don't use IME to type URL anyway (but I still do hope you can fix this. You can find the IME I'm using at <a href="http://pinyin.sogou.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">http://pinyin.sogou.com/</a> of course it's a Chinese IME) So I have to switch to non-IME, type URL, switch back again, which is basically what I do when I need to type URL in a browser over these years.</p>
<p dir="auto">The problem is: opera always takes me directly back to speed dial page while I finished typing URL, hit enter, then hit ctrl-space (very quick, like I said I've been doing this for years it's kind of a habit) to switch to IME mode. At first I thought I had some connection problem, then I figured out it's opera using ctrl-space as it's own keyboard shortcut.</p>
<p dir="auto">So, I don't need this ctrl-space to speed dial shortcut anyway (I would rather just ctrl-T to open a new tab) Is there anything I can do to permanently disable this annoying shortcut?</p>
<p dir="auto">Thanks in advance.</p>
]]></description><link>https://forums.opera.com/topic/185/how-can-i-disable-the-ctrl-space-keyboard-shortcut</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 12:50:51 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://forums.opera.com/topic/185.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2013 09:19:21 GMT</pubDate><ttl>60</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to How can I disable the ctrl-space keyboard shortcut? on Fri, 29 Nov 2013 21:56:32 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Not yet, AFAIK, but <a href="http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2013/10/07/opera-17-final?startidx=150#comment112626182" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc">they said they would tell is how</a>.</p>
<p dir="auto">I am still waiting to find out.</p>
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