Google brings keyboard shortcuts and customized mouse buttons to ChromeOS

Google is rolling out a brand new ChromeOS replace (M123) to its secure channel tomorrow that brings options like the power to customise keyboard shortcuts and mouse buttons, and allow hotspot connections on mobile Chromebooks. The corporate's April replace additionally introduced updates and bug fixes to Pixel Watches and Pixel telephones operating 5A and above.

The keyboard shortcuts characteristic will work identical to in different working techniques, in that you may assign particular actions to particular key combos. Google offers examples of modifications to shortcuts to make them simpler to make use of with one hand or to make them extra like what you're used to, like macOS. The identical applies to customizing mouse buttons – in case your mouse has further buttons moreover left and proper click on, and also you wish to flip that awkward aspect button right into a mute button, you may with this replace to ChromeOS. might do.

The corporate has additionally added per-app language preferences for the Android apps you run in ChromeOS, and it says it's made its offline text-to-speech voices extra natural-sounding. As is Google's means, these updates will likely be launched over the subsequent few days.

On the Pixel Watch, Google added its personal model of Taptic Time, the Apple Watch accessibility characteristic that tells you what time it’s with a vibration “chime.” The corporate additionally says it's simpler to inform the distinction when the wearer modifications their watch's auto-brightness setting.

Lastly, the Pixel April replace addresses points like digicam stability when switching between zooms and digicam publicity not resetting when customers faucet the display screen. The corporate says it has additionally mounted a biometrics bug the place a black display screen appeared when customers unlocked their Pixel.