sharpkeys VS AutoHotInterception

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/

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I don't use it much any more and stopped early this century, so my knowledge here may be out of date.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

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  ] };

There's a little utility program called Sharpkeys that lets you remap the functions of every key on the keyboard.

Sharpkeys

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:

https://www.randyrants.com/ or the Microsoft Store

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

You can achieve that with Autohotkey and AutoHotInterception, which allows you to capture keypresses at a driver level from a specific input-device. I used that for turning a bluetooth numpad into a little macro pad.

I've had some good experiences with using Luamacros to intercept a second keyboard and forward the keypresses to autohotkey like this: https://miquelvir.medium.com/secondkeyboard-1c39e52e023b

Apparently there is also this: https://github.com/evilC/AutoHotInterception

AutoHotInterception might be a workaround for this. The docs cover how to do everything.

This may be what you're looking for: https://github.com/evilC/AutoHotInterception

I believe this is what you're looking for. Sorry, I haven't tried it yet.

I haven't used it yet, but I found AutoHotInterception which uses an "interception" driver to get you hotkeys with a lower level of keyboard interception - this will likely work for Dosbox, though it might be a bit excessive. I'll play around with it tomorrow and see how it works.

I would suggest using an alternative shortcut as CTRL+ALT+DEL is not something you generally want to mess with - but this library https://github.com/evilC/AutoHotInterception may help you achieve your goals, it is capable of blocking the input of ctrl+alt+del...

AHK can't differentiate between keyboards by itself. You need to use AutoHotInterception to find out which keyboard sent the data.

I used AutoHotInterception for making a cheap little bluetooth numpad into a macropad.