Is there a way to disable keyboard shortcuts in VLC on my laptop?

Question

I have a cat that won't stop walking on my keyboard while I'm watching big bang theory, now it has delayed the audio, changed the aspect ratio and I got some Asian language subtitles.

How can I disable keys in VLC doing this? This is on my laptop.

Solution 1

Answer

Not directly. But you can set everything to the same key combination. By doing so, every hotkey will become unset except the last hotkey, which you can set to be something like ctrl+shift+q. your cat won't probably step on this combination at the same time.

Demonstration:

Solution 2

 Answer as of 2017

Button Unset was added into hotkeys preferences, so you do not need to do magic on unsetting the hotkeys any more, just double-click each line and press Unset.

Comments

[Rohit Gupta]

Just unplug the keyboard !!!

[Oscar Apeland]

@RohitGupta its a laptop u goof

[Rohit Gupta]

Oscar, have you thought of sharing this priceless information in your post ? Just earned a down vote from me.

[Oscar Apeland]

I really hope you are joking here. This question was resolved for more than two years ago, I don|t think any changes are relevant.

[Rohit Gupta]

Oscar, I actually edited it to add laptop in it, its waiting for peer review. :-)

[Lorenzo Von Matterhorn]

cool gif, nice answer :)

[matan129]

Thanks @LorenzoVonMatterhorn! I've used LICEcap, it's very handy

[Marc.2377]

The Delete key also works to unset a hotkey.