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Don't exit full screen when pressing escape in apps like Safari on Lion

Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 202652171 views
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In OS X Lion, pressing the ESC key exits full screen mode. Unfortunately, and especially when using Safari, ESC is used for other functions, such as in Javascript keystroke event handling. I don't want Lion to exit full screen mode when pressing escape, but I can't find a place to disable that functionality. I already know the keyboard shortcut to Enter/exit full screen mode (Cmd-Ctrl-F). I want to disable the ESC shortcut. I've been Googling, but cannot find any answers.

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Fix for: Don't exit full screen when pressing escape in apps like Safari on Lion

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Try OptionEsc, which worked for me.

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