I never use the keyboard shortcuts for moving spaces in mission control, and they happen to conflict with some other settings I have. I have an automated script that sets up my Mac and I'd like to disable all the defaults keybindings for Mission Control programmatically.
How to disable default Mission Control shortcuts in terminal
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Best Answer
I was able to figure this out. Here is what I did:
Step 1
Generate a file with your current default settings:
defaults read com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist AppleSymbolicHotKeys > file_a
Step 2
Manually change the settings you want in
System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts
Step 3
Generate a new comparison file from settings after making your change:
defaults read com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist AppleSymbolicHotKeys > file_b
Step 4
Diff compare the two files:
diff file_a file_b
Step 5
Disable only the keys that appeared in the diff, example: