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How to find a Mac terminal command to turn off a default keyboard shortcut

I'm trying to find the equivalent terminal command for Mac, used to turn off these specific keyboard settings(and the checkbox at the bottom):

Mac system keyboard shortcuts to turn off previous input source

It's the control + space hotkey combination, that is also used by vscode to trigger suggestions

How can one find the correct command for turning this setting off? I found another post, but it mentions keyboard shortcuts for apps, not the system shortcuts

Solution

  • With the comment of Philippe:

    The setting is in the result of command [defaults read com.apple.symbolichotkeys] key 60 atribute enabled = 1. You need to set it to 0.

    I managed to find the following command that sets this to disabled:

    plutil -replace AppleSymbolicHotKeys.60.enabled -bool NO ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist

    And then using this command(or restarting the machine), we can make sure it's applied

    /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SystemAdministration.framework/Resources/activateSettings -u

    Thanks for all the help.