Disable copy/paste command from Touch Bar

[kdean]

I am unable to find a script or a plist file that I would modify for this. Can someone point me in the right direction?

[Hugonaut]

https://folivora.ai/bettertouchtool-pre-alpha-with-touch-bar-support/

real stretch, might be able to customize a touchbar, package it and deploy the changes to end users - no idea though omitted iterm link thanks @mm2270

[mm2270]

@Hugonaut That link only shows Touch Bar options and some manual Touch Bar customizations for the iTerm2 application itself. Many individual applications allow you to customize the Touch Bar, but this is often done by choosing "View > Customize Touch Bar" from within the running application, and then dragging on/off items in the on screen display.

As far as I know, there isn't a programmatic method to customize the Touch Bar, meaning a script or Config Profile that lets you change it's behavior. If there is, I'd be interested in knowing about it, but I have not seen anything. The Touch Bar, as I understand it, uses it's own kind of embedded OS, like at a firmware level, so it makes sense it's not something we can modify with a script or profile. I doubt Apple has exposed the customizations at that level.

[kdean]

@mm2270

So I have to go into the running application, Google Chrome for example, and disable from View > Customize Touch Bar for each application?

[mm2270]

That is my understanding. Again, I can't say I've looked at every possible avenue or tool out there. There may be something (real long shot) that someone built to do what you're looking for, but generally speaking, you need to customize it from within each application. There's nothing I know of that allows for a global change to it. If there is such a thing, I'd be happy to be proven wrong.

Just out of curiosity, what is the need here to disable copy/paste from the Touch Bar? It seems like an odd request, but I assume there's something behind this that we're just not aware of. I'm only asking because maybe there's some other approach you can take.