Disable hardwired chrome hot key ctrl+w?

Using Chrome's Remote Desktop I would like to pass Ctrl+W to an application on the other PC but that actually closes my Chrome window. Any way of disabling shortcut keys in Chrome?

I searched through the web but didn't find any hacks. I added the shortcut manager extension but that can't manage the Ctrl+W shortcut or some other shortcuts.

Only solution that worked for me was to rebind ctrl+w to some extension keyboard shortcut.

go to chrome://extensions
at bottom right look for keyboard extensions
add ctrl+w as shortcut to any chrome extension you like.

Now, ctrl+w does not close the browser tab.

It's extremely annoying since Ctrl+W is the vim equivalent of Ctrl+Backspace. I wrote this little Tampermonkey script to temporarily place an event listener on the page unload event:

// ==UserScript==
// @name       disable ctrl+w
// @namespace  http://use.i.E.your.homepage/
// @version    0.1
// @description  disable ctrl+w
// @match      http://*/*
// ==/UserScript==

document.addEventListener('keydown', function(evt){

    // NOTE: ctrl key is sent here, but ctrl+W is not
    if (evt.ctrlKey) {

        var stopEvilCtrlW = function(e) {
            return "Oopsies, Chrome!";
        },  clearEvilCtrlW = function() {
            window.removeEventListener('beforeunload', stopEvilCtrlW, false);  
        };

        setTimeout(clearEvilCtrlW, 1000);
        window.addEventListener('beforeunload', stopEvilCtrlW, false);
    }

}, false);

The ctrl+w key is used in the nano editor on linux systems. When using crosh in Google chrome this key combination results in a prompt to close the current window.

Try using ctrl+alt+w

Works for me when connecting to remote systems via ssh using crosh.

I am an extensive VIM user, and I had the same issue. Installing "Chrome Remote Desktop" app and using it to connect instead of using "Google Chrome" tab resolved the issue for me.

Disable hardwired chrome hot key ctrl+w?

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