Disable switch to another virtual console with Alt-Left/Right

I'm a Fish shell user, and the Alt-Left/Right keys are very useful for me. But in the virtual terminals those shortcuts are captured and cause a switch between the different terminals (like Alt-F1, F2 etc). My question is, how can I disable that Alt-Left/Right behaviour, since Alt-F1, F2... is more than enough for me.

SanskritFritz wrote:
I got one step closer to my goal:
dumpkeys > my_console_keymap.txt
vim my_console_keymap.txt # deleting the lines with Decr_Console and Incr_Console
loadkeys my_console_keymap.txt
really turns off the switching of consoles, but fish still doesnt get the Alt-Left|Right keys. At least nothing happens, so the situation got better, but I wonder how to pursuade the console to pass on the Alt-Left|Right combo. Any thoughts?
I have the same problem. I can disable the default shortcut but the combination (Alt+arrows) has no effect at all then and I can't use it with any application. Any ideas?

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