Define keyboard shortcut no present on the current keyboard layout

Feature Requests
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Hi Andreas,

I have seen that there have been multiple questions and threads about this topic but i was not able to make the there suggested solutions work for me as i am working in a web application that does not have the menubar items i could trigger via the predefined trigger you provide in BTT.

Problem: Among other things i would like to use CMD + / in a webimplementation of the monaco editor to toggle comment. The first thing i tried was CMD + SHIFT + 7 (german keyboard layout for CMD +/) but that did not work.

Changing the keyboard layout to english works (CMD + . in the german layout then changes to CMD + /). Creating a keyboard shortcut that triggers a keyboard shortcut works as well but after switching keyboard layout back to german the "/" switches to ".".

Using CMD + PAD / (numpad "/") does not work either so i can't create a shortcut that triggers that.

Is it possible to somehow achieve the wanted results that i did not see? Otherwise would it be possible to implement a feature that lets me define what keyboard shortcut to send that does not rely on the keyboard shortcut beeing present on the current layout?

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unfortunately macOS doesn't allow that. Apps need to make sure that their keyboard shortcuts actually work on all keyboard layouts.

So this would unfortunately be a change you need to request for Monaco.

The only alternative would be to remap a real key to /, maybe you have some keys you don't need - then this could be done.

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Alright, thank you for the quick reply!

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By the way, it seems like Monaco uses cmd+# on most keyboard layouts where the / is not available

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Sorry for the late reply. This unfortunately does not work for me. But maybe ill find a way to bind it to that as there is nothing else happening when using cmd+# :smiley: