Mac gurus: I want to disable command-q

Factual Questions
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Actually, I want it to die a slow, torturous death. Then I’d reanimate it and kill it again, but I digress.

I find myself all-too-frequently fatfingering cmd-q instead of hitting cmd-a or cmd-1, or cmd-2, etc. I looked in system preferences, but I couldn’t find a way to unmap cmd-q for the entire system. I could remap it to something else for individual applications, but I want to globally kill it.

Is there any way to do this?

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A quick Google turned up this. I haven’t tested it.

Edit: tested. You’d have to map it separately for each application.

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Thank you for looking at this, tellyworth. I’ve been searching myself and it looks like I’m just going to have to suck it up and remap cmd-q for all the apps I frequently use.

4

BetterTouchTool allows remapping of keys - half of the shortcuts I’ve set up are FOR closing things, but you might be able to do what you’re looking for with it. Free download if nothing else!

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Thanks, chaoticbear. I’ll give that a shot when I’m on my newer MacBook. I’m using my old BeaterBook at the moment and I don’t have Snow Leopard on it.

ETA: From a quick look at the documentation, I should be able to globally remap cmd-q to something innocuous. That’ll do the trick!