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    You may soon be able to remap the Google Assistant key on your Pixelbook or Pixel Slate

    Kevin TofelBy Kevin TofelFebruary 24, 2019Updated:September 22, 2025No Comments2 Mins Read
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    Currently, only Pixel-branded Chrome OS devices have a dedicated Google Assistant hardware key, which of course, launch the Assistant, which is now native. Since November 2017, however, users have requested that Google allow this key to be remapped. And as of this month, Google is working to make this change.

    Chrome Story first spotted the Chromium code commit, which coincides with this 15-month old feature request. Note that you can currently remap a number of hardware keys on any Chromebook, just not the Assistant key. To remap a key, just click Settings, Keyboard to customize either the Launcher, Ctrl, Alt, Escape or Backspace keys. You can also type this link in your browser to get directly to the setting: chrome://settings/device

    Why might people want to remap the Assistant key? Essentially because there’s no “super” key like Windows and macOS computers have, as one of the comments in the feature request points out:

    This feature would add polish for Crostini, as people try to run apps within containers that expect a “Windows” or “Super” key to work.

    I use Linux apps in Crostini every day for coding, but I use a graphical integrated development environment. Devs that work in terminal-style apps often want to rebind or remap certain keys to help their workflow, which I can completely understand. This would be a very welcome feature for those use cases.

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    After spending 15 years in IT at Fortune 100 companies, Kevin turned a hobby into a career and began covering mobile technology in 2003. He writes daily on the industry and has co-hosted the weekly MobileTechRoundup podcast since 2006. His writing has appeared in print (The New York Times, PC Magazine and PC World) and he has been featured on NBC News in Philadelphia.

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