I read through all of the system-wide keyboard shortcuts in "System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts" and I could not find nor unbind the Control+Shift+Space macro for use by SkipTune's pause/play keybinding. I know how to bind it in SkipTunes, but it just shows me this:
Find/unbind control shift space? (^⇧ + space)
keybindingskeyboardshortcutsystem-prefs
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I did exactly as you described recently and you are right that there seems to be no trace to go back to that function to undo it. After talking to several Mac users, including store staff, it got resolved by trial and error by an Apple Store senior support person; he expressed himself that it was an odd solution to the problem and that the key mapping may be faulty but it worked.
None of the people I talked to are aware of this capability to alter the function of the right shift key; if it wasn't for your post, they would have convinced me that there was no such function. Anyway, this is what he did:
- go to System Preferences, then Exposé/Spaces.
- in Exposé, for the "Application Windows" setting, choose "-"
Go to System Preferences → Keyboard → Shortcuts → Spotlight and disable the Show Spotlight window option.
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Macs containing a trackpad (i.e. MacBooks) or with a trackpad attached allow Chinese Trackpad Handwriting. The shortcut ctrlshiftspace shows and hides this trackpad.
I have no clue what I have written.
To disable it enable Chinese Trackpad Handwriting and then disable/remove the shortcut for Show/Hide Trackpad Handwriting in System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Keyboard.