The shortcut control-command-space in Mavericks opens a panel with Emojis. I'd like to use it for another application (Divvy), but it complains that it is already used by a system-wide keyboard shortcut. But as far as I can see there is no way to disable it in the system settings. Does anyone know of an alternative method to disable it?
MacOS – How to disable Mavericks’ emoji shortcut
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I don't know any way to always allow access for assistive devices, but you can add multiple applications to the list in System Preferences by drag and drop:
The following method is produced on OS X 10.9.
The emoji definition file is at /usr/share/mecabra/zh/common/emoji.plist.
You just replace it with an empty plist file (back it up first). The input method will not start again if you simply remove or rename the file. I use the following Python code:
from plistlib import dump
dump({}, open('emoji.plist', 'wb'))
The Python version I use is 3.4. You have to use sudo to replace the file.
Then you reload the input method by doing killall SCIM, and then activate the input method again. If the SCIM process fails to start, log out and log in again. Now the Chinese input method would be emoji-free.
PS: I like the emoji feature. Emoji is the first reason I use the Apple Chinese input method rather than other third party ones.
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Best Answer
Creator of Divvy here. I'm not sure why Divvy can't record this shortcut in the UI, but you can force Divvy to use this shortcut:
defaults write com.mizage.direct.Divvy globalHotkey -dict keyCode 49 modifiers 4352defaults write com.mizage.Divvy globalHotkey -dict keyCode 49 modifiers 4352There's no risk to running these commands, you can always change the shortcut again in the UI. Hopefully I can update the recorder to properly capture these shortcuts in the future.