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Disable the Eject Key
- Thread starter Eraserhead
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Yeah. Those accidental presses are annoying when you have a disk in the computer, as i do it quite regularly.
I wouldn't mind doing that either. I hit the 'eject' key occasionally when I am trying to hit 'delete.' If you are in a quiet room(like in class) and your drive tries to eject a disk that isn't there you can get dirty looks.
That's what I hate about it! It's dead silent and you press Eject or have to restart and you hear that friggen noise.
I have not had that problem. Are you touch typing? I type without looking at the keyboard and I have never had this problem though.
DoubleCommand can't disable the eject key. It actually doesn't do anything at all with the eject key.
My mistake. Maybe this then? Although it seems a little complex it says it can capture all keys over the Window Manager...
http://hocwp.free.fr/xbindkeys/xbindkeys.html
A little late to this thread, but hope this helps.
I actually had Karabiner Elements working great with Sierra on my older Mac Pro - until a recent OS update. I assigned the F6 key to "eject", and that disabled the regular "eject" key. Karabiner also had a recent update (a couple days ago) that appeared to default all my keyboard mods back to standard Apple. Went back to an earlier version in backup, and it didn't fix the problem. Now, I still assign the F6 to "Eject" (and it works fine there), but the "Eject" button is no longer disabled. Did a lot of searching on the net and it seems that Apple has us on this one for now. At this point, I might try making a cover that fits over that corner, so when I accidentally hit the key, it doesn't work.
I actually had Karabiner Elements working great with Sierra on my older Mac Pro - until a recent OS update. I assigned the F6 key to "eject", and that disabled the regular "eject" key. Karabiner also had a recent update (a couple days ago) that appeared to default all my keyboard mods back to standard Apple. Went back to an earlier version in backup, and it didn't fix the problem. Now, I still assign the F6 to "Eject" (and it works fine there), but the "Eject" button is no longer disabled. Did a lot of searching on the net and it seems that Apple has us on this one for now. At this point, I might try making a cover that fits over that corner, so when I accidentally hit the key, it doesn't work.