I had the same problem and just used a node-webkit shell to override the shortcut. It works amazingly well. I use it to work on my EC2 spot instance and works

I had the same problem and just used a node-webkit shell to override the shortcut. It works amazingly well. I use it to work on my EC2 spot instance and works very well even behind a strict corporate proxy. If you need the shell, please ping me on my email.