Customization for hotkeys and shortcuts
Once again, like in Skype 7, which can both change global hotkeys and local shortcuts.

44 comments
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skramer commented
Yes for the love of god, please do this! Skype's lack of customisable hotkey is a totally inane illogical set-up. Hot keys should be customisable and/or functionality to be switched off.
Right now in Mac, the hotkey for Answering a call is the Space Bar. This is a nightmare. You intend to finish typing the line of the email you're writing and you can't be cause the Space Bar answers the call before you're ready.
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Keith Martin commented
please bring back hotkeys!
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Keith Martin commented
YES! WHERE IS OUR HOTKEYS MICROSOFT!!!
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Artem commented
Sometimes need to show another screen in demonstration and now you need to open skype from tray and make 4-5 click, it will be better to change it by hotkeys (for first,second, third screen)
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Daniel K commented
What the... Are you seriously assigning Ctrl+M and Ctrl+E as global hotkeys?! This simple type of combination is has local functionality in thousands of programs. For example, my text editor and my DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) both use both of these shortcuts. I can't believe a company such as microsoft did not realize that global hotkeys need to be a bit less common. My old one for mute was Ctrl+Shift+Alt+M. Worked like a charm and it's actually much easier to use than it looks. Please, get some sense or even better, make global hotkeys customizable. Otherwise there are going to be conflicts, resulting in complaints.
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Ser-volk commented
we do not need the global hotkeys. We need the customizable hotkeys. Everyone has owns preferences. So please make it as it was in v.7. And yes, it is still better/has more functions as in v.8, so it was not the improvement from MS.
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Ser-volk commented
still no news for that?
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John Holt commented
As of right now, the Global Hotkeys require skype to be pulled up in order to work. I want them to work without having skype up. It is very hard to game AND mute your microphone on a skype call when I have to minimize the game, click on skype, THEN CTRL+M. However, at that point I might as well just click the mute button! THERE IS NO POINT if doesnt work when not being focused on.
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Michal commented
Please return hot keys ..
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Rav commented
just bring back hotkeys and snapshots. simple. why make fancy UI and things we dont need and get rid of useful features
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Gromesha commented
Return the ability to customize the hot keys, I can not put the activation of the microphone on the button during a call. And everyone is forced to listen to how my cat wants a cat.
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uscq commented
Why do I can not customization for hotkeys and shortcuts by myself instead of customization by Skype? Sorry for complainant.
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Marc Su. commented
It has always been there, you took it out, and now it is ... coming soon .. Disgraceful!
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Maciej Sulecki commented
Answering calls with custom shortcuts would be VERY usefull for example for users that have laptops with extraordinary buttons or just everyone that wants to answer calls with some keyboard shortcut
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Chris Gravell commented
Won't be easy to do this if they're only programming once and building that for each platform since global hotkeys are hard to implement on mobiles and tablets.
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June Fallen commented
Please, please, please bring back configurable hotkeys! Without it, I find this app frustrating and extremely annoying. You will start to lose more and more users if you keep updating to inferior versions of software. Wish you hadn't forced me to update to the new version of Skype :( Might have to look for an alternative solution, as the new Skype is rubbish.
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Henrik Bjerregaard Clausen commented
I totally agree - a customizable hotkey to show/hide Skype (which the Classic version had) is a must have.
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Bryz commented
BRING BACK TOGGLE MUTE HOTKEY CONFIGURATION!!
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Ser-volk commented
customizable hotkey: especially "Focus on skype" which is now only in hotkeys for Mac and not for Windows.
It was so comfy to open/hide skype. Please customizable! -
Anonymous commented
Please also bring back the "answer call" hotkey and "focus Skype" hotkey.