antimicro VS sharpkeys

Compare antimicro vs sharpkeys and see what are their differences.

antimicro

[NOT maintained anymore] Graphical program used to map keyboard buttons and mouse controls to a gamepad. Useful for playing games with no gamepad support (by AntiMicro)

sharpkeys

SharpKeys is a utility that manages a Registry key that allows Windows to remap one key to any other key. (by randyrants)
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antimicro sharpkeys
77 127
1,685 5,832
- -
1.6 1.6
over 1 year ago about 1 year ago
C++ C#
- Microsoft Public License
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antimicro

Posts with mentions or reviews of antimicro. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-17.

sharpkeys

Posts with mentions or reviews of sharpkeys. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-28.
  • Shortcut for rotating canvas by 15° left or right without a mouse
    1 project | /r/photoshop | 6 Dec 2023
    I don't like using my mouse while drawing and I couldn't find how to do this anywhere, but luckily when I was about to give up I achieved it! So, for this you'll need a program called SharpKeys. You can download it here: https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys/
  • Caps Lock Behaviour Disabled in Gnome
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Sep 2023
    Sharpkeys can swap keys, the readme says as much:

    > Things that SharpKeys will do:

    > ...

    > Allow you to swap two keys with each other - e.g. you can swap Left Windows with Left Control and vice versa

    I do have a vague recollection of Sharpkeys previously saying that it couldn’t, but that I tried and it worked. Long time since I last used Windows though.

    https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys#things-that-sharpkey...

  • Total Commander
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Sep 2023
    > Total commander isn’t FOSS.

    I'm aware of that. There are lots of FOSS equivalents, though. Including, I believe, on Windows. Wikipedia lists 23 of which I think -- haven't checked -- the majority are FOSS.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_manager#Orthodox_file_man...

    > Ironically windows 11 can’t do vertical taskbars.

    True. Easily fixed with Explorer Patcher, though. Which, ironically, is FOSS.

    > And where in windows can you change the system shortcuts?

    I don't use it much any more and stopped early this century, so my knowledge here may be out of date.

    When I do, I use SharpKeys to put a GUI on editing the relevant registry keys for keyboard remapping.

    https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys

    In the NT 3.x era, it was the properties of every EXE's PIF file. So I set Crtl+Alt+(initial) to open my most used apps. Ctrl+Alt+D for DOS, E for Excel, W for Word, etc.

    This still works with limitations under Win9x through to XP, which is when I jumped off the Windows ship.

    But mostly it's about learning the many many built-ins.

  • Learn AutoHotKey by stealing my scripts
    20 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Aug 2023
    Remapping Capslock to Control:

    Windows: https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys

    Ubuntu Linux (don't know about other Linuxes): /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/pc

        key  { [ Caps_Lock  ] };
  • Window key not working as intended
    1 project | /r/computer | 7 Jul 2023
    There's a little utility program called Sharpkeys that lets you remap the functions of every key on the keyboard.
  • Taking control of the super key.
    1 project | /r/bashonubuntuonwindows | 3 Jul 2023
    Sharpkeys
  • Menu Key in Adobe Premiere (Windows)
    1 project | /r/premiere | 30 May 2023
    This application can be used to do that. You'll notice it can't see the menu key either if you try to autodetect it, so you need to set it manually. It's listed as:
  • How can i assign a key to a diffrent one
    1 project | /r/keyboards | 26 May 2023
    https://www.randyrants.com/ or the Microsoft Store
  • Setup Media Key shortcuts
    1 project | /r/Windows10 | 25 May 2023
    SharpKeys: available in the Microsoft Store. Or you can get it here: https://www.randyrants.com/category/sharpkeys/ or here: https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys
  • Keychron K6 key remapping help
    1 project | /r/Keychron | 17 May 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing antimicro and sharpkeys you can also consider the following projects:

antimicrox - Graphical program used to map keyboard buttons and mouse controls to a gamepad. Useful for playing games with no gamepad support.

PowerToys - Windows system utilities to maximize productivity

ESP32-BLE-Gamepad - Bluetooth LE Gamepad library for the ESP32

NohBoard - A Keyboard Visualizer

HidHide - Gaming Input Peripherals Device Firewall for Windows.

kmonad - An advanced keyboard manager

arduino-n64-controller-library - Arduino N64 Controller Library

wincompose - 🔣 Compose Key for Windows

anjoy-public - Temporary repository to host bug reports and documentation for the AnJoy Anki add-on

evremap - A keyboard input remapper for Linux/Wayland systems, written by @wez

reshade - A generic post-processing injector for games and video software.

key-mapper - 🎮 An easy to use tool to change the mapping of your input device buttons. [Moved to: https://github.com/sezanzeb/input-remapper]