Remove all backward focus traversal keys for the application
import java.awt.AWTKeyStroke; import java.awt.KeyboardFocusManager; import java.util.HashSet; import java.util.Set; public class Main { public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception { Set<AWTKeyStroke> set = new HashSet<AWTKeyStroke>(); KeyboardFocusManager.getCurrentKeyboardFocusManager().setDefaultFocusTraversalKeys( KeyboardFocusManager.BACKWARD_TRAVERSAL_KEYS, set); } }