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I cannot make CTRL+H do anything else than "Open history" under Google Chrome. I tried the Chrome plugin allowing to redefine keyboard shortcuts but I can only add "actions" or whatever that means to a keyboard shortcut and apparently it's done using some gigantic JavaScript hack.

Here's the plugin:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mgjjeipcdnnjhgodgjpfkffcejoljijf

In any case I cannot make CTRL+H work as the backspace key under Chrome (i.e. delete the key at the left of the cursor). I'd particularly like that to work in the address bar / search bar (which is the same "bar" under Chrome) and in text edit form as well.

So how can I make CTRL+H work as the backspace key under Google Chrome? (Debian GNU/Linux Wheezy here).

Note that if the answer is to use the plugin for Chrome allowing to change shortcuts, then I'd need the exact method, step-by-step, as to how to do it because I already tried it and couldn't make it work

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I take it using Backspace is not an option? :) – terdon Aug 18 '12 at 17:44
@terdon: I use "CTRL+H" to delete the char to the left of the cursor since decades at the shell prompt, in my text editors, in my IDEs, etc. The actual "backspace" key is quite far and hard to reach compared to CTRL+H (left pinky on ctrl which is where 'caps lock' is on most keyboards) and 'h' is home row for the right hand. That actual backspace key is quite far to reach for me and I never ever use anything else but CTRL+H to 'backspace' anyway. My keyboard is a happy hacking pro 2 keyboard btw (a $300 keyboard using Topre switches). – Cedric Martin Aug 18 '12 at 19:27
Hmm, have you tried mapping it for all X apps? maybe using xbindkeys? – terdon Aug 18 '12 at 21:23
@terdon: I could try something like that but the problem is that I'm not sure it's that easy to bind two keys so that they act as if it was just one key :-/ I hoped changing a shortcut under Chrome wouldn't be that hard :-/ – Cedric Martin Aug 18 '12 at 22:30

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